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Costume design by Erté

Costume design

Erté · 1905

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DETAILS
Artist
Erté
Date
1905
Location
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Collection
Drawings and Prints
Credit line
Purchase, The Martin Foundation Inc. Gift, 1967
ART MOVEMENTS
Art Deco
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Erté

1892–1990 · France

Designed over 200 Harper's Bazaar covers and dressed everyone from Mata Hari to the Ziegfeld Follies.

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