Fashionable Artists: ERTE' ( Romain de Tirtoff)

Romain de Tirtoff (23 November 1892 – 21 April 1990) was a Russian-born French artist and designer known by thepseudonym Erté, the French pronunciation of his initials, R.T. He was a diversely talented 20th-century artist and designer who flourished in an array of fields, including fashion, jewelry, graphic arts, costume and set design for film, theater, and opera, and interior decor.