Medium: Serigraph printed on Silk, Signed lower right in the plate

Dimensions: 38” x 39” Framed

Description

Erte combines his love and knowledge of fashion and graphic arts to produce stylistic Art Deco serigraphs. This serigraph portrays an elegant lady in a golden tunic encouraging the flock of blue-gray birds on their victory flight into the forest. The trees are stylistically represented in blue, gray and black complementing the golds and orange of the sun rising behind them. This piece is finished with a high gloss and gold wooden frame sympathetic to the era.

Born Romain de Tirtoff in 1892 in Russia the artist and designer was known by the pseudonym Erté. 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 an iconic 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.