Thread by @karolcummins

🌑#Erté🌑

Romain de Tirtoff known in the art world as Erté, was born in 1892 in St.. Petersburg, Russia and died in 1990, in Paris, France.

Erte - Symphony in Black

🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑

#PAM #PAMFAM #Erté

🌑#Erté🌑

“Erté’s byname was derived from the French pronunciation of his initials, R.T.”

Athena

🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑

#PAM #PAMFAM #Erté

🌑#Erté🌑

Erté is said to be the father of Art Deco.

Portrait

🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑

#PAM #PAMFAM #Erté

🌑#Erté🌑

The experience that changed Erté’s life was his visit to the Universal Exposition of Paris in 1900.

The Nile

🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑

#PAM #PAMFAM #Erté

🌑#Erté🌑

During that year, the Belle Epoque Period was at its zenith in Paris. This period, started in 1871 and ended with the beginning of WWI in 1914.

The Queen of Sheba

🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑

#PAM #PAMFAM #Erté

🌑#Erté🌑

The Belle Epoque was known as an age of happiness, peace, optimism and prosperity.

The Queen of the Night

🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑

#PAM #PAMFAM #Erté

🌑#Erté🌑

The dynamic discoveries & rapid technological innovations increased production & world wide trade, which in turn inspired radical innovations in modern art and design.

Asian Princess

🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑

#PAM #PAMFAM #Erté

🌑#Erté🌑

In 1912 Erté went to Paris, where he briefly collaborated with Parisian couturier Paul Poiret

Masquerade

🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑

#PAM #PAMFAM #Erté

🌑#Erté🌑

He gained fame as fashion illustrator in the 1920s.

🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑

#PAM #PAMFAM #Erté

🌑#Erté🌑

He then gained fame as a fashion illustrator and a costume designer.

Ready for the Ball

🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑

#PAM #PAMFAM #Erté

🌑#Erté🌑

As his fame grew American fashion house sought out his pen-and-ink and gouache illustrations.

Summer Breeze 1978

🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑

#PAM #PAMFAM #Erté

🌑#Erté🌑

Erté worked for the Folies-Bergère in Paris from 1919 to 1930 designing elaborate costumes and spectacular set designs.

Kimono

🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑

#PAM #PAMFAM #Erté

🌑#Erté🌑

He also costumed the performers appearing in such American musical revues as the Ziegfeld Follies and George White’s Scandals during the 20s.

🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑

#PAM #PAMFAM #Erté

🌑#Erté🌑

Costume

🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑

#PAM #PAMFAM #Erté

🌑#Erté🌑

Costume

🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑

#PAM #PAMFAM #Erté

🌑#Erté🌑

Costume

🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑

#PAM #PAMFAM #Erté

🌑#Erté🌑

Erté’s designs included dresses and accessories for women; costumes and sets for opera, ballet, and dramatic productions; and posters and prints.

Harlequin

🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑

#PAM #PAMFAM #Erté

For 35 years Erté designed elaborately structured opening tableaus, finale scenes, and costumes for the French theatre.

🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑

#PAM #PAMFAM #Erté

🌑#Erté🌑

Leading ladies of the stage sought out Erté to create costumes to out shine their competition.

🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑

#PAM #PAMFAM #Erté

🌑#Erté🌑

Some of his notable clients included
Mata Hari, Anna Pavlova, Sarah Bernhardt, Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Lillian Gish and Marion Davis.

🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑

#PAM #PAMFAM #Erté

🌑#Erté🌑

From 1916 to 1937 he was under contract to the American fashion magazine Harper’s Bazaar.

🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑

#PAM #PAMFAM #Erté

🌑#Erté🌑

A collection of Harper’s Bazaar illustrations was published in Designs by Erté [1976] with text by Stella Blum.

🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑

#PAM #PAMFAM #Erté

🌑#Erté🌑

“His highly stylized illustrations depicted models in mannered poses draped in luxurious jewels, feathers, and soft, flowing materials.”

🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑

#PAM #PAMFAM #Erté

🌑#Erté🌑

“Against a background of interiors in the Art Deco style.”

🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑

#PAM #PAMFAM #Erté

🌑#Erté🌑

The same lavish style marked Erté’s theatrical designs.

🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑

#PAM #PAMFAM #Erté

🌑#Erté🌑

In the 1960s Erté produced lithographs, serigraphs, and sheet-metal sculptures.

🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑

#PAM #PAMFAM #Erté

🌑#Erté🌑

His autobiography, Things I Remember, was published in 1975.

🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑

#PAM #PAMFAM #Erté

🌑#Erté🌑

Bronze Sculpture

🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑

#PAM #PAMFAM #Erté

🌑#Erté🌑

Bronze Sculpture

🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑

#PAM #PAMFAM #Erté

🌑#Erté🌑

Bronze Sculpture

🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑

#PAM #PAMFAM #Erté

🌑#Erté🌑

For addition review:

erte.us/bio.html

🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑

#PAM #PAMFAM #Erté

🌑#Erté🌑

🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑

#PAM #PAMFAM #Erté

🌑#Erté🌑

🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑

#PAM #PAMFAM #Erté

🌑#Erté🌑

🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑

#PAM #PAMFAM #Erté

🌑#Erté🌑

If you like this please check out

#PopArt, #GermanExpressionism, #PreRaphaelites, #Dadaism #Surrealism. #Bauhaus & #AshCanSchool #Fauvism #Futurism #Vorticism #Supremacism

🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑

#PAM #PAMFAM #Erté

🌑#Erté🌑

Also please check out:

#MaxfieldParrish #JohnSingerSargent
#DavidHockney #Kandinsky #StillLife #GustavKlimt #EdgarDegas #ImogenCunninghamF64 #Vermeer #PierreRenoir #AndrewWyeth #infraredphotography #Renoir

Up next?

🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑

#PAM #PAMFAM #Erté

🌑#Erté🌑

Please add your favorite Erté artwork.

@threadreaderapp unroll please and thank you.

🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑🌖🌔🌑

#PAM #PAMFAM #Erté