Signed; Erté - Things I remember. An autobiography - 1975

Erté - Things I Remember. An Autobiography - London, Peter Owen, 1975 - First U.K. edition - 208 pp. - Hardcover, cloth, dustwrapper - 24.5 x 17.5 cm.

* With signed dedication to Emmy Huf (a Dutch fashion journalist and actress) on a piece of lined paper pasted on the title page: 'To Emmy Huf, with kindest regards Erté'

* Richly illustrated with a unique selection of 77 personal photographs and reproductions in black-and-white and colour of all aspects of Erté's work

* Contains a few brochures and letters from a British and New York art gallery on the retrospective show of Erté's work exhibited as 'The Art of Erté' and some clippings from 1977 to 1979

¶ First British edition of the memoirs of the famous versatile, Russian-born French twenties & thirties Art-Deco fashion-, costume- and stage-designer Erté, pseudonym of Romain de Tirtoff (1892-1990). In 1912 he moved to Paris to make his name, among others, in the House of Poiret, to set up new trends in fashion and theatre design. In the years that followed he became one of the most sought-after designers in theatre, opera, musical comedy, revue and film, as well as in textiles, accessories and as illustrator for Harper's Bazar. He designed costumes in Art-Deco style for Ziegfeld Follies, the Folies Bergère as well as for Hollywood movies such as Ben-Hur, The Mystic, Time, The Comedian, and Dance Madness. This autobiography spans over 60 years, in which the artist collaborated with many artists, actors, singers, producers and other men and women of fame of his time.