Roland Barthes - Erté (Romain de Tirtoff) - 1975

Érté (Romain de Tirtoff) - Text by Roland Barthes followed by an excerpt from Erté's memoirs -
Franco Maria Ricci Publisher, 1975 - 78 Color plates mounted on full-page, including the complete reproduction of the alphabet painted by Erté in gouache, with touches of gold and silver in 1927.
A photographic portrait of Erté and excerpts from the artist's memoirs are found at the end of the work -
Black silk cloth binding by the publisher, gilt titled and illustrated on the upper board with a Greek head of dark skin, blue eyes, gold lips and hair, smooth spine gilt titled, 189 pages, front endpapers and guards illustrated with three-leaf clovers, in luxurious black clamshell case whose boards are also illustrated with three-leaf clovers - Format Grand in-4 (23 x 35.5 cm) -
First edition - Limited print run on handmade paper specially produced in the Pietro Miliani mill in Fabriano - French edition limited to 3000 numbered copies on blue-tinged wove paper -
Copy No. 1815, signed by the publisher - Excellent condition. In mint condition -
Many exhibitions around the world have celebrated the Russian artist Romain de Tirtoff, known as Erté, regarded as one of the founders of the Art Deco movement. Barthes's work is to date one of the rare monographs of the artist - Erté has profoundly influenced fashion, jewelry design, stage costumes and sets for theater, music halls (notably for the Folies Bergère), opera and cinema - In 1913, the young artist became one of the leading illustrators and modellers in the workshop of the great couturier Paul Poiret - He designed covers and iconic illustrations for the American fashion magazine "Harper's Bazaar". His artistic signature remains inseparably linked to the silhouettes of femme fatales, stylized and sinuous, which characterize the aesthetics of the Roaring Twenties.