Alan Herman Art

Aquating Engraving Image Size: approx. 20 1/4 x 13 3/8 Framed Size: 28 x 20.5 inches Pencil Signed Lower Right Louis Justin Laurent Icart was born in Toulouse in 1890 and died in Paris in 1950. He lived in New York City in the 1920s, where he became known for his Art-Deco color etchings of glamourous women. 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 entered the l'Ecole Superieure de Commerce de Toulouse in order to continue his studies for a career in business, particularly banking (his father's profession). However, he soon discovered the play writings of Victor Hugo (1802-1885), which were to change the course of his life. Icart borrowed whatever books he could find by Hugo at the Toulouse library, devouring the tales, rich in both romantic imagery and the dilemmas of the human condition. It was through Icart's love of the theater that he developed a taste for all the arts, though the urge to paint was not as yet as strong for him as the urge to act. 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. 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...

Sepulcher of Carlo di Angiò is an original etching, realized by Piroli written below the image down in the XIX century, the table is XII is written at the top of the image on the rig...

An evocative view of the Church of Santa Maria della Salute, Venice. The image is framed by the stone window and geometric pattern of iron over the window. Signed and numbered from the edition of 100. Engraver, sculptor and painter, Edo Janich...

Medium: Etching, aquatint & roulette Year: 1991 Image Size: 24.63 X 39.63 inches Edition Size: 90 Signed and numbered in pencil by the artist Image of a Paris apartment, showing the...

Midnight Observatory [2012] limited_edition etching and aquatint Edition number 69 Image size: H:20 cm x W:13.5 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:37.5 cm x W:27.5 cm x D:.03cm Sold Unframed Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look An etching and aquatint depicting the Royal Observatory at midnight in winter, printed from a copper plate in deep blue. This view of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich Park as seen from One Tree hill...

Colour aquatint by JC Stadler after Thomas Rowlandson and Auguste Pugin. From the series 'Microcosm of London', published by Rudolf Ackermann, the great Regency publisher of fine c...

This piece is part of an ongoing project entitled "Fragmentary Views" (2001 - Present) by Xiaoze Xie, which is a series of paint-compositions based upon photographs of found newspape...

Joseph Kosuth ( American, b. 1945) L’Essence de la rhétorique est dans l’allégorie IV, 1998 Medium: Set of three heliogravure and aquatints, on BFK Rives rag paper Dimensions: each 4...

Colour aquatint by Bluck after Thomas Rowlandson and Auguste Pugin. From the series 'Microcosm of London', published by Rudolf Ackermann, the great Regency publisher of fine colour...

Colour aquatint by Bluck after Thomas Rowlandson and Auguste Pugin. From the series 'Microcosm of London', published by Rudolf Ackermann, the great Regency publisher of fine colour...

The Fortune is an etching and aquatint realized by Franco Gentilini (Italian Painter, 1909-1981) in the 1970s. From the serie "The Tarots" Dry stamp by Il Cigno Stamperia d’Arte. ...

Andre MINAUX Young Girl in Dressing Room Original stone lithograph Handsigned in pencil Numbered / 140 ex On vellum 60 x 50 cm (c. 24 x 20 inch) Bears blind stamp of the editor (Pe...