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IRA REINESIn 1980, the iconic father of art Deco and master artist Romain de Tirtoff%u2014 better known as Ert%u00e9%u2014 aspired to have his beautiful drawings and paintings realized as sculpture. Having no sculptural experience, Ert%u00e9 sought out a sculptor whose talent and sculptural ability would faithfully translate those two-dimensional works into sublimely beautiful three dimensional bronzes. He selected Ira Reines, an award-winning young sculptural prodigy whose talent and passion impressed Ert%u00e9.Reines collaborated closely with Ert%u00e9 for eleven years, translating the master%u2019s celebrated two-dimensional couture designs into a series of seventy bronze sculptures. Those sculptures were distributed world-wide and reside in the collections of well-known museums including Great Britain%u2019s Victoria and Albert Museum, New York%u2019s Metropolitan Museum of Art, Coral Springs Museum in Florida, and the Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern art in Shanghai, China.New York / 1957SCULPTURAL ETHEREALISM108 MOST MAGAZINE - ISSUE 50