ERTE "ANGER" Seven Deadly Sins Suite HAND SIGNED FRAMED

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Come with beautiful Gold Frame and Red/Orange mattingPerfect complement to the print (fire) ERTE "Anger " from the suite The Seven Deadly Sins Hand Signed and Numbered Serigraph Image size: 20X15 Paper Size: 26.5 x 21 In Excellent Condition RETAIL: $4,000 About the Artist: Born in St. Petersburg, and destined by his father for a military career, Erte confounded expectation by creating his first successful costume design at the age of five and was finally allowed to move to Paris in 1912 in fulfillment of his ambition to become a fashion illustrator. He soon gained a contract with the journal Harper's Bazaar, to which he continued to contribute fashion drawings for twenty two years. Erte is perhaps best remembered for the gloriously extravagant costumes and stage sets that he designed for the Folies Bergere in Paris, and for George White's Scandals in New York, which exploit to the fullest his taste for the exotic and romantic, as well as his appreciation for the sinuous and lyrical human form. Erte also designed for the opera and traditional theatre, and spent a brief and not wholly satisfying period of time in Hollywood in 1925 at the invitation of Louis B. Mayer, head of Metro Goldwyn Meyer. Following a period of comparative eclipse during the Second World War and its aftermath, Erte's second career began when he met London read more