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"The Russian-born painter Romain de Tirtoff, who called himself Erté after the French pronunciation of his initials, was one of the foremost fashion and stage designers of the early twentieth century. Erté is perhaps best remembered for the gloriously extravagant costumes and stage sets that he designed for the Folies-Bergère in Paris and George White's Scandals in New York, which exploit to the full his taste for the exotic and romantic, and his appreciation of the sinuous and lyrical human figure. As well as the music-hall, Ertè also designed for the opera and the traditional theater, and spent a brief and not wholly satisfactory period in Hollywood in 1925, at the invitation of Louis B. Mayer, head of Metro-Goldywn-Mayer. After a period of relative obscurity in the 1940s and 1950s, Ertè's characteristic style found a new and enthusiastic market in the 1960s, and the artist responded to renewed demand by creating a series of colorful lithographic prints and sculpture. This luxuriously illustrated volume contains a rich and representative selection of images, drawn from throughout Ertè's long and extraordinarily productive career. A detailed introduction to the artist's life and work is complemented by over 100 exquisite full-color plates."--book jacket.

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