Artwork Details
- Title
- Le Trajet
- Artist
- Date
- ca. 1911
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 45 3⁄8 x 75 3⁄8 in. (115.2 x 191.4 cm.)
- Credit Line
- Gift of the artist
- Mediums
- Mediums Description
- oil on canvas
- Classifications
- Subjects
- Figure female — full length
- Allegory — death
- State of being — death
- Object Number
- 1968.18.3
Artwork Description
Le Trajet, Brooks's nude study of Ida Rubinstein, is a candid image of female sensuality charged by the women's own relationship. Rubinstein's pale, languid form floats, buoyed on a winglike shape in an inky void, creating a visionary, dreamlike space of eroticism and reverie. Symbolic associations between sex and death were common in European art of the time; the title suggests a meditation on transitions: from passion to relaxation, wakefulness to sleep, and life to death.
The Art of Romaine Brooks, 2016