Rubinstein, with some of the portraits she commissioned over the years. Courtesy of Helena Rubinstein Foundation archive, Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York Special ...

Recollections of the Helena Rubinstein sale of African and oceanic art / David Nash -- Madame's collection : Africa at its heart / Hélène Joubert -- Frederic-Henri Lem's mid-twentieth century case for ...

At 4 feet-10-inches tall, beauty maven and art collector Helena Rubinstein "was a lot of woman in a small package," art historian and resident Marlene Strauss told the audience Tuesday at The Society ...

This campy tribute opens just as its subject would have wanted: with a velvet curtain behind a gauzy, spotlit portrait of the First Lady of cold creams, clad in pearls and a gold sash and looking very ...

Four-foot-ten and squat—“built like an icebox,” in the words of one acquaintance—with a strong nose and an iron jaw, Helena Rubinstein was an unlikely ambassador for beauty. Which may have worked to ...

This December, Sotheby’s will present Icons: Back to Madison, a first-of-its-kind exhibition bringing together some of the most iconic works ever sold under our banner—just one month after opening its ...