Valentino plays music for Negri

Federico Beltrán Masses (Spanish, 1885-1949): Pola Negri and Rudolph Valentino, c.1925 (Oil on canvas) - Valentino plays music for Negri, who is the focus of the painting… Negri became Hollywood’s first imported star where her exotic, glamorous appearance and notorious offscreen romances attracted a great deal of publicity. She had an affair with Valentino with whom she was still involved at the time of his death in 1926. Stricken with grief, Negri is said to have thrown herself onto his coffin…