Born into an ancient family of the Russian military aristocracy, 97-year-old Erte tells of his first 19 years in St. Petersburg, his 22 years with Harper's Bazaar, and his experiences designing costumes and sets for Hollywood films. 80 halftones, 70 color plates.
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Born into an ancient family of the Russian military aristocracy, 97-year-old Erte tells of his first 19 years in St. Petersburg, his 22 years with Harper's Bazaar, and his experiences designing costumes and sets for Hollywood films. 80 halftones, 70 color plates.
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Erte. Fine in near fine jacket. Frontispiece and 156 illustrations, 74 in color and 82 in duotone. 240 pages. Short folio, grey cloth, d.w. (lightly scuffed and with one short closed tear at top of front panel). New York: E.P. Dutton, (1989). First edition. Fine in near fine dust wrapper.
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VG (DJ has a few scuffs and some edgewear; otherwise very nice. ) Gray stamped cloth, brown & illus. dust jacket, 240 pp., 82 BW illus., 74 color plates. The story of Russian-born French artist and designer Romaine de Tirtoff (1892-1990), known as "R.T." or "Erte." He provides here "a broad survey of his work. Fine examples of each category--fashion design, magazine covers, theater design, graphics, industrial design, sculpture, objets d'art, jewelry, medallions, posters, etc. --are handsome reproduced in color on fine coated paper. This is the definitive Erte book for those who collect or just admire his work." (dj).
