Author(s): Hélène Joubert (Text by); Hélène Joubert

Fashion

Helena Rubinstein was the founder of the highly successful, international cosmetics empire which bore her name. "Madame" - as she liked to be called - acquired a vast quantity of works, furniture, and artifacts of every type, in the process becoming a legendary patron and arbiter of taste. The most remarkable and innovative components of this astonishing collection, dispersed after her death at a historic series of auctions in 1966, were its African holdings, with the remainder being made up of Oceanic, Indonesian, and pre-Hispanic art. It is the history of this collection, its content, and above all its spirit, that Helena Rubinstein: Madame's Collection reconstructs.