Category
Sculpture-VolumeMedium
BronzeType of Artwork
Multiple (50/500)Certificate issued by
Hickmet Fine ArtsSignature
baseSize of the artwork
55 cm(21.65 in)
Invoice issued by
Hickmet Fine ArtsCondition
excellentFoundry date
1988Foundry
Seven ArtsArtwork description
ERTÉ
(1892-1990)
Chinese Legend(1988)
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An eye catching limited edition cold painted Art Deco bronze figure of an elegant beauty in a full length costume resembling a Fenghuang. The bronze surface with excellent colour and detail, signed Erté, numbered 50/500, dated 1988 and with foundry mark.
Erté Chinese Legend – Sculpture as such has been a rather late arrival in Erté’s life, but his three-dimensional creativity began long before he started to work with Paul Poiret in Paris in 1913. It began at his house in St. Petersburg in 1897, when he was five years of age and created a little theatre using his mothers empty perfume bottles, which he filled with different coloured waters. These were his players, whose costumes he created by adorning them with bits of lace and gauze he found in the sewing room. Some months later, he began his career in fashion by designing a gown for his mother.
Bibliography - "Erté - The Last Works" by Eric Estorick - Page 152