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Erté Book Collection

	This collection of four (4) books were purchased by the original owner, a teenager, around 1957 and are in excellent condition. She was planning a career in the fashion world after designing her own prom gown, and used them for reference. If interested in these books, please contact: kas@gmail.com. Some are available, in various conditions on https://www.amazon.com.

December 1, 1976 - Fashion Drawings and Illustrations from Harper's Bazar by Erté (Author), Stella Blum (Editor, Introduction) and Eric Estorick (Preface)

		From 1915 to 1936 Erté was associated with Harper's Bazar, furnishing readers with fashion designs, cover art, and word-pictures of the European fashion scenes. This book is a selection of Erté's remarkable work forHarper's Bazar, including 310 of his line drawings and 8 full-color images as well as selections from his letters for the magazine. There are12 great pictures that havebeen been reproduced directly from the original pen drawings and at their original size for this edition. In the illustrations, Erté shows gowns, coats, pajamas, hats, and accessories of all sorts and for each season. Tassels, fur muffs, capes, hair stylings, and other extravagant flourishes are second nature to Erté in these designs. The drawings themselves are striking evocations of the "temptress" type of feminine allure, and are works of art in their own right whose exotic styles are inseparable from the style of the fashions they depict. The original Harper's captions have been reprinted with each illustration.

This selection from Erté's work has been made by Stella Blum, Curator of the Metropolitan Museum's Costume Institute, who has chosen the illustrations both for their interest as art and for their importance in the development of fashion. Copies of Harper's Bazar from the years of Erté's great work are very hard to find today, and students of fashion, fashion illustration, and others interested in Erté will find this a most welcome collection.

April 1, 1978 - Erte Graphics: Five Complete Suites (50 Prints) Reproduced in Full Color by Erté (Author), Stella Blum Editor, Introduction) and Eric Estorick (Preface)

		The Russian-born, Paris-bred artist Erté (Romain de Tirtoff) is recognized as one of the foremost fashion and theatrical designers of the twentieth century. In 1968, when he produced his first lithographs, art lovers discovered that he had found another medium suited to his extraordinary talents. This volume provides a fascinating sample of Erté's very best graphic work, offering every plate from his most popular collections: The Alphabet (1977); The Numerals (1968); The Aces (1974); The Precious Stones (1969); and The Seasons (1970). Each plate has been painstakingly reproduced from the autographed, limited-edition lithographs. A brief Preface offers bibliographic data.

1979 - Erté's Theatrical Costumes in Full Color Paperback by Erté (Author), Stella Blum (Editor, Introduction) and Eric Estorick (Preface)

		"All-around beautiful and worth picking up for anyone interested in fashion, theatre, theatrical costuming, and art." says Looking for a Good Book A fan bearing slave girl, a worshipper of Horus, the wife of a Russian boyar, Ceres, a mermaid and a gypsy dancer - are among the 49 theatrical costumes that have been selected for this volume from the vast and widely praised output of the Russian-born, Paris-bred designer Erte (Romain de Tirtoff). Spanning the years 1911 to 1975, these extravagant, imaginative costumes - all done for specific actual productions - include costumes for great or notorious personalities (the music-hall and musical-comedy star Gaby Deslys, the opera soprano Ganna Walska), , editions of George White's Scandals, and ballets, and shows . Folies-Bergere.

Erte, like Leon Bakst, is one of the few designers who treated costume design as a fine art; his works in this genre are not only up to his own high standards, but are among the finest costume designs ever done. As dazzling as his color graphics and as witty as his fashion designs are, this book deserves the attention of all costume designers, artists, theater people.

September 1, 1984 - Erté's New Erte Graphics in Full Color by Erté (Author), Stella Blum (Editor, Introduction) and Eric Estorick (Preface)

		Exquisite visions of "The Seven Deadly Sins," "The Four Emotions," "The Zodiac," "At the Theatre" and more will delight enthusiasts and win new admirers for the legendary designer. Lush, full-color reproductions of 56 dazzlingly inventive silkscreens reflect the richness of color and sensuous theatricality as well as elegance of wit and aversion to formulae which have become Erté's trademark

The Aris Collection

Hobby Ceramics

Cast Iron Banks

Collectible items made in Occupied Japan during the summer of 1945 through the spring of 1952 while U.S. troops were in the country. The entire collection is up for sale and includes all documentation.

As of March 2023, Agnestelle Hobby Ceramic Shop only has finished pieces for sale. All molds, bisque and supplies have been turned over to Emma's Ceramic Studio (ECS).

Authentic still and Mechanical cast iron banks from the Collection of Dudley Atwood Bolbat. These banks were first manufactured in the late 1800s, to instill the concept of earning saving money.