Limited Edition Lithograph 267/300, Signed and Numbered in pencil

Dimensions: 38" x 22" Framed

Description

Erte combines his love and knowledge of fashion and graphic arts to produce stylistic Art Deco lithographs. This limited edition lithograph portrays an elegant lady in a lilac dress posing like a fashionista. Her shadow forms at the base of her feet.

Biography

Born Romain de Tirtoff in 1892 in Russia the artist and designer was known by the pseudonym Erté, (pronounced AIR TAY). The only son of an admiral in the Imperial Fleet, he was raised amidst Russia's social elite. As a young boy, Romain worshipped his mother and was educated at home until the age of twelve, spending much of the time in the company of elegant women. At the age of five he created an evening gown for his mother and managed to persuade the adults to craft it, they were astounded by the results.

He was a 20th-century artist and designer in an array of fields, including fashion, jewelry, sculpture, graphic arts, costume and set design for film, theatre, and opera, and interior décor. After visiting Paris for a year in 1907, he moved there in 1910 and stayed until the death of his partner, Prince Nicolas Ouroussoff in 1933.

Erté put all of his sketches and designs in an envelope and sent them to the most famous person in the world of fashion – Paul Poiret, who offered for him to work at his company, which in the early 20^th century, was setting the standard to all that Erté would become a revolutionary force within in Parisian fashion world.