Cléopâtre. ─ Mme Ida Rubinstein. Théatre National de l’Opéra. Antoine et Cléopâtre [Photo Sabourin (succ. de Bert)] | src Getty Images Ida Rubinstein (1880-1960) in the role of Cleopatra from Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare,from magazine Le Theatre, 19201920 ─ LE THÉATRE ─ Nº 384 | Kabinett Auktionen Cléopâtre. ─ Mme Ida Rubinstein. Théatre National de l’Opéra. Antoine et Cléopâtre [Photo Sabourin (succ. de Bert)] Alternative scan of the magazine found on The Red List (broken link, the site had been taken down a few years ago) 1920 ─ LE THÉATRE ─ Nº 384 | Kabinett Auktionen Mme Ida Rubinstein. Rôle de Cléopâtre. Théatre National de l’Opéra. Antoine et Cléopâtre ─ Acte V [Photo Sabourin (succ. de Bert)]
Mlle Germaine WEBB qui vient de remporter un si grand succès de comédienne dans “Sin”, la féerie chinoise de M. Maurice Magre, musique de M. André Gailhard. Photo: Rudomine. | Comoedia Illustré, 1921
Piotr I. Vedenisov (1866-1937) :: Portrait of unknown woman wearing a Kokoshnik, 1909-1914. Autochrome. From Primrose: Early Russian Colour Photography at the Photographers’ Gallery. | src The GuardianPiotr I. Vedenisov (Russian, 1866-1937) :: Uknown woman, Crimea, Yalta, ca. 1914. Autochrome. | src NKFUPiotr Ivanovich Vedenisov (1866-1937) :: Vera Nikolaevna Vedenisova in oriental folk dress, 1909-1914. Autochrome. | src FOAM and NKFUPiotr I. Vedenisov (1866-1937) :: Portrait of unknown woman wearing a Kokoshnik, 1909-1914. Autochrome. | src NKFUPiotr I. Vedenisov (1866-1937) :: Tania and Liza Kozakova in traditional dresses, 1909-1914. Autochrome. From Primrose: Early Russian Colour Photography at the Photographers’ Gallery. | src The Guardian
Sipprell was born on Halloween, 1885, in Tillsonburg, Ontario, Canada. In 1895 (after her father’s death), she and her mother moved from Canada to Buffalo. In the early 1900s, Buffalo was a center of the pictorialism. Sipprell became one of the foremost practitioners of pictorial photography in the United States. She produced autochromes and platinum, bromoil, gum, and carbon prints; won awards in exhibitions; and had her work published in magazines in the United States and Europe.
As a portrait photographer, Sipprell sought to convey a sense of the whole person and what made each unique. […] In 1915, Sipprell, then thirty, moved to New York City with Jessica E. Beers, with whom she lived until 1923. She opened a photographic studio in Greenwich Village and eventually became a contract photographer for the Ethical Culture School, where Beers was a principal.
A Russian immigrant, Irina Khrabroff, was first her student and later her traveling companion, close friend, and business manager. As a student, Khrabroff spent her winters living with Sipprell and Beers in New York City. In 1923, when Khrabroff married, Beers moved out of the apartment, but Sipprell continued living there with Khrabroff and her husband until 1933.
[…] It is not clear whether or not Sipprell’s relationships were sexual or even romantic, yet their length and stability, and the evidence of the memorial marker, indicate an extraordinary level of commitment. [Quoted from lgbtq encyclopedia: Sipprell, Clara Estelle (1885-1975) by Tee A. Corinne]
Erté (Romain De Tirtoff) :: “Queen of the Night”, 1985 (detail) | src Case Antique AuctionsErté (Romain De Tirtoff, Russian-French, 1892-1990) :: Color serigraph with silver and gold foil embossing titled “Queen of the Night”, numbered “PP 1/1”, 1985.
This publisher’s proof depicts the Queen of the Night from “The Magic Flute” opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with four attendants holding the hem of her elaborate gown against a black background, surrounded on the left, bottom, and right edges by a gold star border. Numbered, in chalk, lower left, signed “Erté”, in chalk, lower right. Merrill Chase, Chicago, IL, gallery label, en verso. Housed under glass in a giltwood frame with a black linen liner with a giltwood fillet. Property of Milligan University, Milligan, Tennessee. source: Case Antique / Case Auctions
Erté (Romain De Tirtoff, Russian-French, 1892-1990) :: Color serigraph with silver and gold foil embossing titled “Queen of the Night”, numbered “PP 1/1”, 1985.