Erte: My Life / My Art - An Autobiography

Erte: My Life / My Art - An Autobiography by Erte. hardcover edition. ISBN: 0050553065001.

The story of Ertes life is a chronicle of the worlds of fashion, theater, and elegance in the Twentieth Century. In My Life/My Art (for Erte his life is his art, and vice versa) he takes us through these worlds introducing us in words and photographs to the fabulous people he has known: Poret, Mata Hari, William Randolph Hearst, George White, Lucrezia Bori, Louis B. Mayer, Ramon Novarro, Joan Crawford, Claudette Colbert, Elsa Schiaparelli, Cecil Beaton, Diaghilev, Billy Rose, Barbra Streisand, and amny more. This volume absorbs and updates Ertes 1874 memoir Things I Remember and brings the story up to the present.