Design for a set: Room in a Chinese Palace.

Date

1938 (made)

Artist/maker

Erté (designer)

Materials and Techniques

Gouache and gold paint.

Marks and inscriptions

Erté
It;s in the Bag.

Dimensions

Height: 18 cm, Length: 30 cm

Object history note

This drawing was possibly done for the revue The Fleet's Lit Up, produced at the London Hippodrome on 17 August 1938, although the published programme of the revue states that the settings were designed by Ernst Stern and Clifford Pember and that only the costumes were by Erté.

Descriptive line

Design for a set: Room in a Chinese Palace by Erté (Romain de Tirtoff)possibly done for the revue The Fleet's Lit Up, produced at the London Hippodrome on 17 August 1938.

Bibliographic References (Citation, Note/Abstract, NAL no)

Salmina-Haskell, L., Catalogue of Russian Drawings, London: V & A, 1972, p. 16, cat. 40.
Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings Accessions 1968 London: HMSO, 1969
The full text of the entry is as follows:

"ERTÉ (pseudonym of Romain de TIRTOFF) (born 1892)
...
Design, possibly a project for 'A Room in the Palace' Act II, Scene 5 of The Fleet's Lit Up, first produced at the London Hippodrome, 17 August 1938.
Signed Erté.
Gouache. E.21-1968

Purchased from the funds of the Gabrielle Enthoven Bequest

Note: The published programme of this revue states that the settings were designed by Ernst Stern and Clifford Pember, and the costumes by Erté.
This design was No.192 in the exhibition of Erté's work held at the Grosvener Gallery, London, 19 September to 14 October 1967."

Exhibition History

Erté (Grosvenor Gallery 19/09/1967-14/10/1967)

Subjects depicted

Theatre set

Categories

Drawings; Designs; Theatre

Production Type

Unique

Collection code

PDP