Andre Edouard Marty
French illustrator, set and costume designer. Andre Marty studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and Atelier Fernand Cormon, in Monmartre, Paris. Known mainly throughout fashion history for his his Art Deco style, Marty designing the first posters for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in 1910 , assuring his success in his chosen profession.
As so many others had done before and after him, Marty worked for many prestigious fashion magazines such as Gazette du Bon Ton, Vogue, Femina, Jardin, and Harper's Bazaar, House and Garden, Le Sourire and Comoedia Illustre. His illustrations in a numerous amount of books and advertisement designs would distinguish Marty as an extremely talented artist, as well as one of the only four artists to contribute to every year of the Gazette du Bon Ton.
In the 1930s Marty worked as a costume and set designer for the theatre, cinema and ballet. He would later produce designs for enamel vases, plates and jewelry. From 1931-1933, Marty designed posters for the Underground Group and London Transport.
Andre Edouard Marty died on August 1974.
