Art Deco Legend — Erté

Behind the elegant pseudonym Erté stood Roman Petrovich Tyrtov (1892-1990) from a St. Petersburg aristocratic family. He was expected to uphold the family honor as a naval officer, but art called louder than tradition!
In 1910, he moved to Paris and began a career collaborating with the legendary fashion designer Paul Poiret. He then went on to design costumes for the theatre and cinema, working with icons such as Anna Pavlova and Joan Crawford.
His historic partnership with Harper’s Bazaar shaped the fashion industry’s visual culture for several decades and established him as one of the era’s leading tastemakers.

Erté became one of the key artists of the Art Deco movement, known for his slender, elongated silhouettes, ornamental elegance, and motifs inspired by the natural world.

Nowadays, most of his artworks are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) and the Victoria and Albert Museum (London).

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