Lot Essay
Although this image was not used on the October 1929 cover, it was later reproduced as the serigraph entitled "Tempest", from the Twenties Remembered Again Suite.
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'L'ARC EN CIEL', A GOUACHE ON PAPER
BY ERTE (ROMAIN DE TIRTOFF), FOR THE COVER OF HARPER'S BAZAR MAGAZINE, 1929
Depicting a stylized face in profile, against a background of grey clouds, with a rainbow of multicolored stripes in the foreground, signed l/r, stamped on reverse ERTE (ROMAIN DE TIRTOFF), 10, RUE DE MONTGERON, BRUNOY (S & O), inscribed (1657) "L'Arc-en-Ciel" Couverture Supplementaire No. 150 Octobre 1929--13 x 9¾in. (33 x 24.8cm.), framed
BY ERTE (ROMAIN DE TIRTOFF), FOR THE COVER OF HARPER'S BAZAR MAGAZINE, 1929
Depicting a stylized face in profile, against a background of grey clouds, with a rainbow of multicolored stripes in the foreground, signed l/r, stamped on reverse ERTE (ROMAIN DE TIRTOFF), 10, RUE DE MONTGERON, BRUNOY (S & O), inscribed (1657) "L'Arc-en-Ciel" Couverture Supplementaire No. 150 Octobre 1929--13 x 9¾in. (33 x 24.8cm.), framed