page_title: Ida Rubinstein
section_title: Later life
hierarchical_section_title: Ida Rubinstein / Later life
caption_attribution_description: Léon Bakst, Costume for dancer Ida Rubinstein (1885-1960) in the leading male role in Gabriele D'Annunzio's Le marthyre de Saint Sébastien, 1912. Святой Себастьян. Эскиз костюма к мистерии Габриеле д-Аннунцио *Мученичество святого Себастьяна*. 1911 Бумага верже, карандаш, акварель 44.5 × 27.5 cм
context_page_description: Ida Lvovna Rubinstein 5 October 1885 – 20 September 1960) was a Russian ballerina, actress, personality and patron.
context_section_description: Rubinstein was not a front-rank ballerina; she began her training too late for that. She did have tremendous 'stage presence' and was able to act. She was also a significant patron, and commissioned works that suited her, works that mixed dance with drama and stagecraft. In 1934 the French government awarded her the Légion d'honneur, and then in 1939 the Grand Cross of the order, their highest honour. In 1935 she was awarded honorary French citizenship, and in 1936 she converted to Roman Catholicism.
  In 1940 she left France and made her way to England via Algeria and Morocco. There she helped wounded Free French soldiers until 1944. She returned to France after the war. She lived finally at Les Olivades at Vence, where she died in 1960. She is buried nearby.
caption: Costume design by Léon Bakst for Ida Rubinstein as Saint Sebastian
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