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Endpoint: André Édouard Marty (Illustrator)



created on: 28/01/2026
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André Édouard Marty (born April 16, 1882 in Paris, France - died August 6, 1974 in Limeil-Brévannes, France (aged 92)) was a French decorator, illustrator, poster artist and director, typical of the Art Deco period.


After initially studying philosophy, and following a trip to Italy, André Edouard Marty began studying at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, in the studio of Fernand Cormon. It was at the Ecole des Beaux Arts that he met the artists Georges Lepape, Charles Martin and Pierre Brissaud, all of whom were also to work as fashion illustrators. He also came under the particular influence of the illustrator Maurice Boutet de Monvel, reflected in the refined and elegantly stylized figures found in his own work as an illustrator. Marty’s earliest published illustrations appeared in 1909 in the theatrical review Comoedia Illustré, to which he continued to contribute drawings over the coming years.

He was appointed on the jury for the 1925 Exposition internationale des Arts décoratifs et industriels modernes, from which the Art Deco movement took its name.

Marty was one of only four artists to contribute to every year of La Gazette du bon Ton, a leading pochoir fashion magazine in Paris and in Europe (1912 to 1925).

Marty also had illustrations published in Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Vanity Fair, House & Garden, Le Sourire, Fémina, Modes et Manières d’Aujourd’hui and Comoedia Illustre, among others.

He also illustrated around fifty books, most notably Henri de Regnier’s Scènes Mythologiques, published in 1924.

He also produced designs for posters for London Transport and designed theatre posters (including a number of famous ones for the Ballets russes and the Théâtre National de l'Opéra in 1910).

During the 1910s, he worked with Georges Peignot on typographic vignettes and ornaments for the prestigious G. Peignot et Fils foundry.

Working with the Compagnie des Arts Français, established by the architect Louis Süe and the decorator André Mare, Marty contributed to the decoration of the Pavillon Fontaine at the seminal Exposition des Arts Décoratifs of 1925, for which he also served on the jury. Twelve years later, at the Exposition Internationale of 1937, Marty again worked alongside Süe on the decoration of the jardin d’hiver of the Pavillon de la Société des Artistes Décorateurs, painting four wall panels devoted to the subjects of Pole Vaulting, Horseback Riding, Basketball and Tennis.

In the 1930s Marty worked as a costume and set designer for the theatre, cinema and ballet. Later he also produced designs for enamel vases, plates and jewellery.

He resided at the Maison nationale des artistes in Nogent-sur-Marne from 1966 and died on August 6, 1974 in Limeil-Brévannes.
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