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6 unusual facts about Helena Rubinstein


Helena Rubinstein

Rubinstein died April 1, 1965, and was buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery in Queens.

Coleraine, in Western Victoria, where her uncle was a shopkeeper, might have been an "awful place" but it did not lack of that ingredient.

Her husband helped with writing the publicity and set up a small publishing house, published Lady Chatterley's Lover and hired Samuel Putnam to translate famous model Kiki's memoirs.

Martin Buber

Buber was a direct descendent of the prominent 16th century rabbi, Meir Katzenellenbogen, known as the Maharam of Padua, as was his cousin, cosmetics queen Helena Rubinstein.

Shirley Jameson

Her feminine uniforms included a knee-length skirt, and to top it all off they had a Charm School directed by Helena Rubinstein, who, with her chain of beauty salons, was synonymous with the feminine ideal.

The Art of This Century gallery

The gallery occupied two commercial spaces on the seventh floor of a building that was part of the midtown arts district including the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Non-objective Painting, Helena Rubinstein's New Art Center, and numerous commercial galleries.



see also

Wladyslaw Dutkiewicz

Cornell Prize (CAS of SA) 1951, 55, runner-up 1953; finalist Blake Prize for Religious Art 1956, finalist Dunlop Prize 1955; several gold and silver medals, Royal Adelaide Exhibitions 1952, 1957; shared Advertiser Prize with Erica McGilchrist, 1956; finalist Helena Rubinstein Travelling Art Scholarship Exhibition 1958; South Australian government grant 1976, 1993.