Centennial Celebration of Erté the Father of Art Deco with the World's Only Complete Bronze Sculpture Collection The World's only Complete Bronze Sculpture Collection by the Father of Art Deco, Erté ...
In the 1920s and ’30s, the French illustrator, fashion designer and set designer Erté achieved the kind of single-name fame usually reserved for stars of stage and song. Born Roman de Tirtoff in 1892, ...
The retrospective featured two floors of rare prints, limited edition serigraphs, and bronze sculptures. It also showed The Clasp, a $780,000 jeweled evening bag inspired by an Erté design from 1926.