“Michelle” is a Limited Edition Serigraph. By Romain de Tirtoff. Better known as Erte it is hand Numbered and hand signed. The Year produced was 1980. In the frame – 34 1/4″ wide x 41 1/4″ high. Romain de Tirtoff (23 November 1892 – 21 April 1990) was a Russian-born French artist and designer known by the pseudonym Erté, from the French pronunciation of his initials. He was a 20th-century artist and designer in an array of fields, including fashion, jewellery, graphic arts, costume and set design for film, theatre, and opera, and interior decor. Erté was brought up in St. In 1912 he went to Paris, where he briefly collaborated with Parisian couturier Paul Poiret. He then became a. From 1916 to 1937 he was under contract to the American fashion. Illustrations was published in. [1976] with text by Stella Blum. His highly stylized illustrations depicted models in mannered poses draped in luxurious jewels, feathers, and soft, flowing materials against a background of interiors in the. The same lavish style marked Erté’s theatrical designs. For 35 years he designed elaborately structured opening tableaus, finale scenes, and costumes for the French. He worked for the. In Paris from 1919 to 1930. During the 1920s he costumed the performers appearing in such American musical revues as the. George White’s Scandals. In the 1960s Erté produced lithographs, serigraphs, and sheet-metal sculptures.