Romain de Tirtoff dit Erté - Elégante Art-Déco
\Artist: Romain de Tirtoff dit Erté
Technique: Gouache\Signature: Hand signed\Dimensions: 47_3_42_cm
Superb gouache on yellow paper, approx. 24 x 29 cm, frame: 42 x 47 cm (glass without reflection) In the 1930s, he designed the costumes for several shows of the Folies Bergère and George White's Scandals in New York. Erté worked all his life for shows, ballets and operas but his career ended with Second World War. He also decorated lofts, such as that of Folie's Pigalle Several of his paintings are in museums around the world including the Museum 1999 in Tokyo, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Nicknamed the "Father of Art-Deco"
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\Artist: Romain de Tirtoff dit Erté
Technique: Gouache\Signature: Hand signed\Dimensions: 47_3_42_cm
Superb gouache on yellow paper, approx. 24 x 29 cm, frame: 42 x 47 cm (glass without reflection) In the 1930s, he designed the costumes for several shows of the Folies Bergère and George White's Scandals in New York. Erté worked all his life for shows, ballets and operas but his career ended with Second World War. He also decorated lofts, such as that of Folie's Pigalle Several of his paintings are in museums around the world including the Museum 1999 in Tokyo, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Nicknamed the "Father of Art-Deco"
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