"La Tosca" by Erté

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Height:                                       50 cm

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Circa:                                          1989

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Foundry:                                     Seven Arts

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Materials:                                 Bronze

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Book Ref:                                  Erte – The Last Works by Eric Estorick

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Page Number:                             176

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SKU:                                             8255

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ABOUT

Erté Sculpture

Erté La Tosca – Sculpture as such has been a rather late arrival in Erté’s life, but his three-dimensional creativity began long before he started to work with Paul Poiret in Paris in 1913. It began at his house in St. Petersburg in 1897, when he was five years of age and created a little theatre using his mothers empty perfume bottles, which he filled with different coloured waters. These were his players, whose costumes he created by adorning them with bits of lace and gauze he found in the sewing room. Some months later, he began his career in fashion by designing a gown for his mother.

Erté’s words

” In fashion- creating forms for living people-in the design of furniture, in the design of theatrical settings and costumes, in the design of jewellery, one is functioning in three dimensions, and all this work in the round can be considered sculptural. In this sense, my theatrical settings are large environmental sculptures. I have never made a drawing for a dress or a costume without first having a fully developed idea of it in the round. In fact, before I start a design every detail has to be ripe in my mind, and I execute it without any deviation,because the conception has become a living reality deep in my creative psyche. When I design an evening dress, for example, I assemble a woman in full costume inside my head, swirling in her gown, showing every fold, seam and hem.”

To view our selection of Erté figures please click here.