Erté & The Paris Music Hall
Friday 25 October 2024, 04:00 PM • Rome
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SALE 260
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With almost 100 original designs including fashion costumes, theatre sets and editorial illustrations, we are proud to present the wider catalgoue auction ever dedicated to the father of Art Deco.
Known by the pseudonym Erté (the French pronunciation of his initials R.T.), Romain De Tirtoff moved to Paris in the early 1910s where he began collaborating with fashion designer Paul Poiret; it was his fashion designs that made him world famous. Erté also shines in numerous fields of applied arts: he creates illustrations, jewellery, interior design, stage and film sets and costumes.
His works are exhibited in the most prestigious museum collections around the world, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York to the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.
To enrich the catalogue we present a selection of the most important costume designers of the legendary Parisian Music Halls, artists who revolutionised the style of the first decades of the 20th century with their works, artists such as Charles Gesmar, Ladislaus Czettel and Freddy Wittop who gave life to the époque d'or that has remained in the collective imagination of entire generations.
A catalogue full of fascinating and timeless works for all lovers of visual art awaits you.
Finarte is pleased to announce that the Franco Maria Ricci Foundation is preparing an important exhibition dedicated to Erté, set to take place at the Labirinto della Masone in Fontanellato (Parma) from March to July 2026. Buyers of the works featured in the Erté & the Paris Music Hall auction will be contacted through Finarte and will have the opportunity to loan their pieces for the exhibition.
ADDRESS
Rome / Via Quattro Novembre, 114
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SESSION
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Exhibition
25 October from 11:00 amAll the lots will be visible also during the auction.
Rome / Via Quattro Novembre, 114
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IMPORTANT NOTICE
The Buyer's Premium calculated on the hammer price is 20% up to € 50,000 and 17% over € 50,000.
Conditions of Sale
Finarte consolidates and renews its collaboration with Urania Casa d’Aste by preparing in synergy the next auction dedicated entirely to the original Tables and Illustrations by the great masters of comics.
The sale will take place in October in the prestigious Roman headquarters of Finarte, for which our experts are selecting works from the early 1900s to today, ranging from Disney tables to superheroes Made in USA, from great international masters to erotic tables, from illustrations of the early twentieth century to the cinematographic sketches.
The works will be presented in the catalog with an accurate historical-critical filing, which tends to present and enhance the individual lots in the best possible way to ensure their visibility and the best sales result. The auction will be preceded by an exhibition in Rome, to offer collectors the opportunity to carefully examine all the lots, presented and enhanced by the splendid setting of our exhibition site.