Illustrated by Erte (11 results)

Soft cover. Condition: New. 5th or later Edition. PHOTO AND VIDEO OF PAGES TAKEN TO SHOW CONDITION PRIOR TO SHIPPING; PHOTOS EMAILED FOR MORE SPECIFICS WHEN REQUESTED. Illustrated by Erte (illustrator). Book.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Dover Fine Art, History of Art Series; B & W ; 9 1/4 x 12 1/4"; 129 pages; Soft cover has black spine with white lettering. Pages are clean and tight. Lavishly illustrated with b/w Erte drawings. 'The Russian-born, Paris-based artist Erté (Romain de Tirtoff) is best known for his incomparably styled fashion and theater designs of the 1910s and 1920s. From 1915 to 1936 Erté was associated with Harper's Bazar, furnishing readers with fashion designs, cover art, and word-pictures of the European fashion scenes. This book is a selection of Erté's remarkable work for Harper's Bazar, including 310 of his line drawings and 8 full-color images as well as selections from his letters for the magazine. Of these drawings, 12 have been reproduced directly from the original pen drawings at original size for this edition. In the illustrations, Erté shows gowns, coats, pajamas, hats, and accessories of all sorts and for each season. Tassels, fur muffs, capes, hair stylings, and other extravagant flourishes are second nature to Erté in these designs. The drawings themselves are striking evocations of the "temptress" type of feminine allure, and are works of art in their own right whose exotic styles are inseparable from the style of the fashions they depict. The original Harper's captions have been reprinted with each illustration. This selection from Erté's work has been made by Stella Blum, Curator of the Metropolitan Museum's Costume Institute, who has chosen the illustrations both for their interest as art and for their importance in the development of fashion. Copies of Harper's Bazar from the years of Erté's great work are very hard to find today, and students of fashion, fashion illustration, and others interested in Erté will find this a most welcome collection.' Oversized/3#. Illustrated by Erte (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A nice copy, the jacket has some rubbing at the extremities.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good+. Tight unmarked book in rubbed covers and slight stress to one corner. Costumes and theater designs by Erte; 11.18 X 9.37 X 0.47 inches; 144 pages. Illustrated by Erte (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Introduction by Michael Holroyd. First edition thus. Near fine in a very good (age toning) dust jacket. Illustrated by Erte (illustrator).

1st edition, hardback, square 4to, 48pp, illustrated, slight browning, otherwise clean and sound, no inscriptions, Very Good / Good dustwrapper. wrapper edges rubbed, price-clipped, ISBN: 0218511175.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. All books outside UK sent airmail and over £30 tracked and inside UK signed for. PayPal accepted. All dust wrappers are film protected. First edition. Introduced by Michael Holroyd. Inscription on front end paper that may be from the illustrator. Original cloth. Dust wrapper is complete with original price and is a little edge worn. Illustrated by Erte (illustrator).…

Condition: Near Fine. First edition (hardback). 8vo (23cm by 21cm), 48pp. 17 text illustrations by Erte, printed in two colours. Original red cloth, dustwrapper. The book is in very good condition; the dustwrapper is in near-VG condition (slight chafing of the extremities). ISBN 0218511175.

magazine. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. very good. Vintage Paper Items are NOT RETURNABLE; "approximately 10x14, from our extensive vintage paper collection, in mylar with stiff backing"; ADV009882; 12539; 4 pages; "Scarce piece, b/w, some age discoloration,approximately 10x14, some edgewear, in mylar with stiff backing, ".…

Square 8vo, 47pp. Colour and black & white illustrations. A very good hardback copy in like dust jacket. Some light foxing.

First French edition. Limited edition. Signed by the editor. Text in French. Publisher's original black silk with gilt titles and small parma violet illustrations to the upper board and spine, with a printed illustration by Erté to the upper board. Housed in the dark grey cloth folding case, with white card label with black titles and borders pasted to the backstrip. Patterned endpapers. Printed on handmade blue paper with the deckled fore-edge. Illustrated throughout with 78 tipped in colour plates by Erté, including a photograph of the artist himself, and 42 black and white line drawings of the artist's costume and prop designs. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the lower board very lightly spotted to the top edge and a little marked, with a touch of rubbing to the extremities. The contents are clean throughout, and without inscriptions or stamps. An attractive example. Issued in an edition of 3000 copies carried out in two successive print runs of 1500 copies, from which this example is numbered 2697, and signed by the editor Franco Maria Ricci in black ink on the colophon. A luxuriously-bound study of Russian-born French artist, fashion designer, and set designer Romain de Tirtoff (1892-1990), popularly known by the pseudonym Erté (from the French pronunciation of his initials). Richly illustrated throughout with a series of reproductions of the artist's works, this volume includes an accompanying essay by French critic and literary theorist Roland Barthes, followed by an extract from Erté's memoirs. The text was published in a series of six languages, Italian, English, French, Spanish, German, and Russian. Widely considered 'The Father of Art Deco', Erté's most famous art deco costume creations were worn by international stars of the stage and screen such as Marion Davies, Lillian Gish, and Irène Bordoni. Yet, Erté is particularly remembered for his artistic contributions to print media, having contributed over 200 covers for Harper's Bazaar fashion magazine in his signature art deco style, between 1915 and 1937. His work has since been described as a major factor in the magazine's rise in popularity, to the extent that the magazine's owner and publisher William Randolph Hearst is said to have once commented "what would Harper's Bazaar have been if it wasn't for Erté?" (Jon Astbury for Dezeen, 2025). The Alphabet and Numeral Suites, featured in this book, reportedly came from his childhood, with the artist explaining in an interview for The New York Times 'When I was learning to write, I thought of it as a kind of drawing. It amused me to make the letters in fancy ways, and I guess I came to think of the human body as a pliable part of a design in Maria Petitpa's ballet class' (Flora Lewis for The New York Times, 1976). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.…