Erte "A" CUSTOM FRAMED Vintage Print Art Deco Alphabet Letter Suite NEW Fashion

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ERTE - "A"
This Artwork is:
NEW
CUSTOM FRAMED In a Contemporary Gold Wood Frame
Matted in Off-white with a black V-groove and inner core
Fine Art Print
Framed Size is:13.75" x 17.5"
Image Size is: 7" x 11"
Complete with Ready to Hang Hardware
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Erté
,
byname of
Romain de Tirtoff
(born
November 23, 1892
, St. Petersburg,
Russia
—died
April 21, 1990
,
Paris
,
France
),
fashion
illustrator of the 1920s and creator of visual spectacle for French music-hall revues. His designs included dresses and accessories for women; costumes and sets for opera, ballet, and dramatic productions; and posters and prints. (His byname was derived from the French pronunciation of his initials, R.T.)
Erté was brought up in St. Petersburg. In 1912 he went to Paris, where he briefly collaborated with Parisian couturier Paul Poiret. He then became a
costume
designer and began selling his pen-and-ink and gouache fashion illustrations to American fashion houses. From 1916 to 1937 he was under contract to the American fashion
magazine
Harper’s Bazaar.
(A collection of
Harper’s Bazaar
illustrations was published in
Designs by Erté
[1976] with text by Stella Blum.) His highly stylized illustrations depicted models in mannered poses draped in luxurious jewels, feathers, and soft, flowing materials against a background of interiors in the
Art Deco
style.
The same lavish style marked Erté’s theatrical designs. For 35 years he designed elaborately structured opening tableaus, finale scenes, and costumes for the French
theatre
. He worked for the
Folies-Bergère
in Paris from 1919 to 1930. During the 1920s he costumed the performers appearing in such American musical revues as the
Ziegfeld Follies
and
George White’s Scandals.
In the 1960s Erté produced lithographs, serigraphs, and sheet-metal sculptures. His autobiography,
Things I Remember,
was published in 1975.