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===Romaine Brooks=== Barney's longest relationship was with the American painter Romaine Brooks, whom she met around 1915.<ref>The exact date of Barney and Brooks' first meeting is uncertain. {{harvnb|Jay|1988|p=29}} says "probably... on the eve of war"; {{harvnb|Rodriguez|2002|p= 223}} puts it "around the start of the war"; {{harvnb|Souhami|2005|p=137}} says 1915; {{harvnb|Wickes|1976|p= 145}} says "probably in 1915"; and {{harvnb|Rapazzini|2005|p=17}} says October 1916.</ref> Brooks specialized in [[portrait]]ure and was noted for her somber palette of gray, black, and white.{{sfn|Rodriguez|2002|p=224}} During the 1920s she painted portraits of several members of Barney's social circle, including de Gramont and Barney herself.{{sfn|Jay|1988|p=31}} [[File:Natalie Barney and Romaine Brooks.jpg|thumb|Barney and Romaine Brooks, circa 1915]] Brooks tolerated Barney's casual affairs well enough to tease her about them, and had a few of her own over the years, but could become jealous when a new love became serious. Usually she simply left town, but at one point she gave Barney an ultimatum to choose between her and Dolly Wilde—relenting once Barney had given in.{{sfn|Rodriguez|2002|pp=295–301}} At the same time, while Brooks was devoted to Barney, she did not want to live with her as a full-time couple; she disliked Paris, disdained Barney's friends, hated the constant socializing on which Barney thrived, and felt that she was fully herself only when alone.{{sfn|Souhami|2005|pp=137–139, 146}}{{sfn|Secrest|1974|p=277}} To accommodate Brooks's need for solitude they built a summer home consisting of two separate wings joined by a dining room, which they called ''Villa Trait d'Union'', the hyphenated villa. Brooks also spent much of the year in Italy or travelling elsewhere in Europe, away from Barney.{{sfn|Rodriguez|2002|pp=227, 295}} Their relationship lasted for over fifty years.{{sfn|Rodriguez|2002|p=223}}
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