1920s Art

Medium: original etching and drypoint. Executed for Abel Hermant's "Bigarrure", this beautiful Louis Icart etching was published in Paris in 1928 in a limited edition of 1100. Plate ...

Medium: original etching and drypoint. Executed for Abel Hermant's "Bigarrure", this beautiful Louis Icart etching was published in Paris in 1928 in a limited edition of 1100. Plate ...

Artist: Louis Icart, French (1888 - 1950) Title: Venetian Nights Year: 1926 Medium: Etching, signed in pencil Image Size: 18 x 14.5 inches Size: 19 x 15.5 in. (48.26 x 39.37 cm) Fram...

Louis Icart Coursing II - Elegant with greyhounds Original etching, 1929 Hand signed in pencil by the artist On vellum size 56 x 80 cm (c. 22 x 32 inch) Very good condition REFEREN...

Louis Icart Coursing II - Elegant with greyhounds Original etching, 1929 Hand signed in pencil by the artist On vellum size 59 x 86 cm (c. 23 x 34 inch) Very good condition (margins...

LOUIS ICART French, 1888 - 1950 CAFÉ PLACE BLANCHE signed "Louis Icart" (lower left) titled, inscribed, signed and located "- Café place Blanche - / XVI-77 / L. I, / Paris" (on the r...

Louis Icart Faust : Margueritte and Devil Original etching with aquatint Signed in pencil On vellum 62 x 45 cm (c. 25 x 18 in) REFERENCES : Catalog raisonne "The Complete Etchings...

Louis Icart Woman and a dove Original etching, 1929 Handsigned in pencil by the artist On BFK Rives, size 72 x 54 cm (c. 28,3 x 21,3 in) REFERENCE: Catalog raisonné "Louis Icart : ...

Louis Icart Woman and a dove Original etching, 1929 Handsigned in pencil by the artist On BFK Rives, size 72 x 54 cm (c. 28,3 x 21,3 in) Good condition, insolated paper with some br...

Aquatint Engraving Image Size: approx. 20 1/4 x 13 3/8 Framed Size: approx. 28 x 20.5 inches. Pencil Signed Lower Right Louis Justin Laurent Icart was born in Toulouse in 1890 an...

Aquatint Engraving Image Size: Approx. 20 x 15 inches Framed Size: Approx 30 x 26 inches Pencil Signed Lower Right Louis Icart, French (1880 - 1950) Louis Icart was born in Toulouse, France. He began drawing at an early age. He was particularly interested in fashion, and became famous for his sketches almost immediately. He worked for major design studios at a time when fashion was undergoing a radical change-from the fussiness of the late nineteenth century to the simple, clingy lines of the early twentieth century. He was first son of Jean and Elisabeth Icart and was officially named Louis Justin Laurent Icart. The use of his initials L.I. would be sufficient in this household. Therefore, from the moment of his birth he was dubbed 'Helli'. The Icart family lived modestly in a small brick home on rue Traversière-de-la-balance, in the culturally rich Southern French city of Toulouse, which was the home of many prominent writers and artists, the most famous being Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Icart fought in World War I. He relied on his art to stem his anguish, sketching on every available surface. It was not until his move to Paris in 1907 that Icart would concentrate on painting, drawing and the production of countless beautiful etchings, which have served (more than the other mediums) to indelibly preserve his name in twentieth century art history. When he returned from the front he made prints from those drawings. The prints, most of which were aquatints* and drypoints*, showed great skill. Because they were much in demand, Icart frequently made two editions (one European, the other American) to satisfy his public. These prints are considered rare today, and when they are in mint condition they fetch high prices at auction. Art Deco*, a term coined at the 1925 Paris Exposition des Arts Decoratifs*, had taken its grip on the Paris of the 1920s. By the late 1920s Icart, working for both publications and major fashion and design studios, had become very successful, both artistically and financially. His etchings reached their height of brilliance in this era of Art Deco, and Icart had become the symbol of the epoch. Yet, although Icart has created for us a picture of Paris and New York life in the 1920s and 1930s, he worked in his own style, derived principally from the study of eighteenth-century French masters such as Jean Antoine Watteau, François Boucher and Jean Honoré Fragonard. In Icart's drawings, one sees the Impressionists Degas...