The gold details of the black coat in Erté’s “Loge de Théâtre” 1984 took my eye straight away, I suppose of how extravagant these details were; this luxurious black coat was destined to be the centre of attention.
Created in a few fast strokes with two watercolour brushes in Procreate and detailed with a 6B pencil brush. While my re-imagination of Erté’s piece omits a lot of detail including that beautiful pink curtain, I decided to call it “pink curtains”.
[…] 1. “Loge de Theatre” (1984), while this was the first piece I looked at, I found that black coat interesting with its hanging gold details. This coat was definitely a show piece. We re-imagined that black fur coat in PORTIÈRE ROSE PÂLE. […]