Romain de Tirtoff dit ERTÉ (1892-1990 )Study of a brooch-pendant, 1987Lead pencil, coloured pencils and gouache highlights on tracing paper. Signed, dated, annotated and dedicated "to Serge [Leeman] one day in Cala Fornells" lower right. 20 x 14.5 cmProvenance : Serge Leeman Collection, Erté's successor. It is a study for the brooch-pendant "Salomé" (Erté, Art-à-porter, Catalogue raisonné des bijoux, Paris, La Bibliothèque des arts, 1991, p. 135) . Erté discovered his model in Giulietta from Les Contes d'Hoffman, the motif of his silkscreen print dated 1983 and bearing the name of the character.