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[Arthur Rubinstein, 1886- , half-length portrait, left profile, seated at piano] – Antique Photo Print

[Arthur Rubinstein, 1886- , half-length portrait, left profile, seated at piano] — historic photograph
[Arthur Rubinstein, 1886- , half-length portrait, left profile, seated at piano]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Arthur Rubinstein, 1886- , half-length portrait, left profile, seated at piano]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Arthur Rubinstein, 1886- , half-length portrait, left profile, seated at piano]

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Arthur Rubinstein, the Polish-born pianist, is shown here in half-length profile, seated at the keyboard with his left side toward the camera. Rubinstein (1887 to 1982) is usually dated to 1887 rather than the 1886 printed in the title, and his long career made him one of the best-known concert pianists of the twentieth century, celebrated especially for his interpretations of Chopin. The caption card gives no date for the photograph, so the sitting itself can only be placed within his many decades on stage. A portrait like this one, which places the performer at the instrument rather than in a studio pose, offers a useful glimpse of how concert musicians were presented to the public in photographs.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,500 × 1,949 px · prints to 5 × 6 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-129861

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