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RARE "Erté" Romain de Tirtoff Clipped Signature:
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Romain
de Tirtoff (23 November 1892
– 21 April 1990) was a Russian-born French artist and designer known by
the pseudonym Erté, from the French pronunciation of
his initials (pronounced [ɛʁ.te], AIR TAY). He was a 20th-century artist and
designer in an array of fields, arts, costume and set design for film, theatre, and opera, and interior decor. Tirtoff was born Roman Petrovich
Tyrtov (Роман Петрович Тыртов) in Saint Petersburg, to a distinguished family with roots tracing
back to 1548, to a Tatar khan named Tyrtov. His father, Pyotr Ivanovich Tyrtov,
served as an admiral in the Russian Fleet. In 1907, he lived one year in Paris.
He said about this time "I did not discover Beardsley until when I had already been in Paris for a
year". Demoiselle à la balancelle is one of Erté's first
sculptures, if not the first. Made in 1907, at the age of 15 years, during a
stay in Paris. This work is less precise than his other sculptures, but
still Art Nouveau. Erté
considered this so minor and uninteresting that it does not appear in his
official biography, but the cartouche on the back indicates 'ERTE PARIS 1907',
in a triangle. In 1910–12, Romain moved to Paris to pursue a career as a
designer. In Paris he lived with Prince Nicolas Ouroussoff (December 17, 1879 –
April 8, 1933) up until the prince's death in 1933.[3] The decision to move to Paris was made despite
strong objections from his father, who wanted Romain to continue the family
tradition and become a naval officer. Romain assumed his pseudonym to avoid
disgracing the family. He worked for Paul Poiret from 1913 to 1914. In 1915, he secured his
first substantial contract with Harper's Bazaar magazine, and thus launched an
illustrious career that included designing costumes and stage sets. During this
time, Erte designed costumes for the Mata Hari.[4]Between 1915 and 1937, Erté designed over 200 covers
for Harper's Bazaar, and his illustrations would also appear in
such publications as Illustrated London News, Cosmopolitan, Ladies' Home Journal,
and Vogue. Erté is perhaps
most famous for his elegant fashion designs which capture the art deco period in which he worked. One of his earliest
successes was designing apparel for the French dancer Gaby Deslys who died in 1920. His delicate figures and
sophisticated, glamorous designs are instantly recognisable, and his ideas and
art still influence fashion into the 21st century. His costumes, programme
designs, and sets were featured in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1923, many productions of the Folies Bergère, Bal Tabarin, Théâtre Fémina, Le Lido[6] and George White's Scandals. On
Broadway, the celebrated French chanteuse Irène Bordoni wore Erté's designs. In 1925, Louis B. Mayer brought him to Hollywood to design sets
and costumes for the silent film Paris. There were many script problems, so Erté was given
other assignments to keep him busy. Hence, he designed for such films as Ben-Hur, The Mystic, Time, The Comedian,
and Dance Madness. In 1920
he designed the set and costumes for the film The Restless Sex starring Marion Davies and financed by William Randolph Hearst. By
far, his best-known image is Symphony in Black, depicting a
somewhat stylized, tall, slender woman draped in black holding a thin black dog
on a leash. The influential image has been reproduced and copied countless
times. Erté
continued working throughout his life, designing revues, ballets, and operas.
He had a major rejuvenation and much lauded interest in his career during the
1960s with the Art Deco revival. He branched out into the realm of limited
edition prints, bronzes, and wearable art. Two years
before his death, Erté created seven limited edition bottle designs for Courvoisier to show the different stages of the
cognac-making process, from distillation to maturation.[10] In 2008, the eighth and final of the remaining
Erte-designed Courvoisier bottles, containing Grande Champagne cognac dating
back to 1892, was released and sold for $10,000 apiece.
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