The astounding career of Erté, one of the most influenctial artists of the twentieth century, has passed another milestone on a road that is as rich in variety as it is long. 1982 marks the artist's ninetieth year of life and his seventieth year of professional success in a phenomenal range of visual arts. After more than half a century of international acclaim as a designer of sets and costumes for productions such as Folies-Bergère, George White's 'Scandals', and several Hollywood films, and as the designer of fashions and covers that gave 'Harper's Bazaar' the image of elegance it projected in the 1920s and 30s--at a time when most men would be content to rest on their laurels--Erté began the exciting but demanding work of creating graphics to be issued in limited editions as fine art prints. This book contains full color reproductions of all 208 Erté graphics that had been completed at the time the book went to the printer." --book jacket.