Louis Icart Art
French, 1888-1950
Louis Icart is considered to be a symbol of the Art Deco movement through his brilliant sketches and prints. Born in 1888 in Toulouse, France, his interest in art began at an early age. He was particularly drawn to fashion sketches and designs during the period when the fashion industry was undergoing a revolution from conservative 19th-century designs to the clingy simplicity of the early 20th century. Icart worked in major fashion studios where his L.I. initials on women’s clothing were highly regarded. While fighting in World War I, he continued to sketch on every available surface to ward off the anguish and agony of the war. He moved to Paris after the war to concentrate on painting and produced beautiful etchings. Icart’s prints were elaborate aquatints and drypoints done with great skill. They often portrayed women in sensual, erotic poses with an implication of direct sexuality.
By the 1920s, the Art Deco movement had gained great popularity in Paris, France. Icart’s etchings and paintings, though largely influenced by Impressionists such as Claude Monet, were synonymous with the Art Deco era. His drawings also reflected the brilliance of Symbolists such as Gustave Moreau; however, Icart preferred not to be identified with artistic movements. His financial and artistic success came in the late 1920s. His work was featured in fashion publications and design studios in Europe and the United States. His immensely popular images, which were considered phenomenal by 1925, included "Laziness" and "Spilled Milk." Icart died on December 20, 1950, at his home in Montmartre, France.(Biography provided by Rosenbaum Contemporary)
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Dreaming Girl - Original etching
By Louis Icart
Located in Paris, FR
Louis Icart
Dreaming Girl
Original etching and stencil
Printed signature in the plate
On vellum 19 x 29 cm (c. 8 x 12 in)
Excellent condition
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Etching
'Place De La Concorde, Paris' Antique oil painting on canvas
By Louis Icart
Located in St. Albans, GB
Louis Icart
(1880-1950)
Canvas Size: 18 x 22" (46 x 55cm)
Outside Frame Size: 26 x 30" (65 x 76cm)
Signed and titled on the reverse.
When Louis Icart returned to Paris after his s...
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Early 20th Century Art Deco Louis Icart Art
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Oil
original etching
By Louis Icart
Located in Henderson, NV
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 ...
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1920s Louis Icart Art
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Etching
Louis Icart (1888-1950): Speed II (Vitesse)
By Louis Icart
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Louis Icart , French/American, 1888-1950
"Speed II" (Vitesse) etching and aquatint on Arches paper signed lower right, Windmill blindstamp lower left, printed...
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Early 20th Century French Art Deco Louis Icart Art
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Paper
original etching
By Louis Icart
Located in Henderson, NV
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 ...
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1920s Louis Icart Art
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Etching
"Cinderella" framed antique 1927 signed and dated etching by artist Louis Icart
By Louis Icart
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Cinderella" framed antique 1927 etching of Cinderella and her dog by artist Louis Icart. Signed Louis Icart on lower right. Inscribed "Edité par les Artistes Modernes, 5 rue Scribe ...
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1920s Art Deco Louis Icart Art
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Louis Icart "Spilled Milk"
By Louis Icart
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Louis Icart (French, 1888-1950) "Spilled Milk" color etching, pencil signed "Louis Icart" and "Copyright 1925", circa 1925. Dimensions: 26.5"H X 31"W.
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1920s French Art Deco Vintage Louis Icart Art
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Paper
original etching
By Louis Icart
Located in Henderson, NV
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 ...
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1920s Louis Icart Art
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Conchita, Color Etching by Louis Icart 1929
By Louis Icart
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Louis Icart, French (1888 - 1950)
Title: Conchita
Year: 1929
Medium: Etching, signed in pencil
Image Size: 20 x 13 inches
Frame Size: 32.5 x 25 inches
Reference: Figure 361 ...
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1920s Art Nouveau Louis Icart Art
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Etching
Art Deco Signed Louis Icart Paris Framed Lithograph Etching Resting Nude Woman
By Louis Icart
Located in Miami, FL
Art Deco French brown carved framed lithograph etching from a nude resting by the Artist Louis Icart, Paris 1928.
These paintings hung in the master bedroom in the French apartments...
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1920s French Art Deco Vintage Louis Icart Art
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Canvas, Wood, Paint
Louis Icart 'Two Women Overlooking Paris' C.1920
By Louis Icart
Located in Pewsey, GB
Offered for sale is this fabulous Louis Icart (1888-1950) Etching of two women overlooking Paris. It has been signed.
In very good condition. It has been re-framed. A larger than no...
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1920s French Art Deco Vintage Louis Icart Art
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Paper
Faust : Margueritte and Devil - Original etching, Handsigned
By Louis Icart
Located in Paris, FR
Louis Icart
Faust : Margueritte and Devil
Original etching with aquatint
Signed in pencil
Blind stamp of the editor on the bottom left corner
On vellum 62 x 45 cm (c. 25 x 18 in)
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1920s Art Deco Louis Icart Art
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Etching, Aquatint
Art Deco Etching "Zest" by Louis Icart
By Louis Icart
Located in Berlin, DE
Etching by Louis Icart ( 1888-1950 ), France. 1928. Signed in pencil lower right: Louis Icart.
Dated top left: Copyright 1928 by L. Icart Paris. Decorative frame. Dimensions: 19.29 ...
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Early 20th Century Art Deco Louis Icart Art
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Woman with Tall Hat - Original etching
By Louis Icart
Located in Paris, FR
Louis Icart
Woman with Tall Hat
Original etching and stencil
Printed signature in the plate
On vellum 19 x 29 cm (c. 8 x 12 in)
Excellent condition
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Early 20th Century Modern Louis Icart Art
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Etching
Original Signed Louis Icart Etching Titled "Idleness" or Laziness" Bear Rug 1925
By Louis Icart
Located in St. Louis, MO
Louis Icart (1888-1950) artist that worked in America and France. This Erotic etching and aquatint printed with colour and with hand colour titled "SMOKE' (FUMÉE), 1926" showing a beautiful woman in a diaphanous gown reclining on a bear skin rug...
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1920s French Art Deco Vintage Louis Icart Art
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Wood, Paper
Train Attendant, c. 1917 - Original Handsigned Etching and Drawing
By Louis Icart
Located in Paris, FR
Louis Icart
Train Attendant, c. 1917
Original dry point etching
Watercolor and pencil drawing in the lower margin
Handsigned in pencil
On Japanese paper, 47,5 x 32,5 cm (c. 18,7 x 1...
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1910s Art Deco Louis Icart Art
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Watercolor, Pencil, Color Pencil, Etching
CASANOVA
By Louis Icart
Located in Aventura, FL
Etching on paper. Hand signed lower right margin. Image size: 20 x 13 inches. Frame size approx 36 x 27 inches.
Reference: Figure 331 page 156 in "Louis Icart: The complete etchin...
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1920s Art Deco Louis Icart Art
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Etching, Paper
Art Deco Etching "Paresse" by Louis Icart, 1925
By Louis Icart
Located in Berlin, DE
Art Deco colored etching by Louis Icart ( 1888-1950 ), France. 1925. Signed in pencil lower right: Louis Icart.
Dated top left: Copyright 1925 by Gravures Modernes, Paris. Decorativ...
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Early 20th Century Art Deco Louis Icart Art
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Woman and the Broken Pot - Original etching
By Louis Icart
Located in Paris, FR
Louis Icart
Woman and the Broken Pot
Original etching and stencil
Printed signature in the plate
On vellum 16 x 22 cm (c. 6.5 x 9 in)
Excellent condition
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Early 20th Century Art Deco Louis Icart Art
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Etching
Don Juan
By Louis Icart
Located in Missouri, MO
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...
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1920s Art Deco Louis Icart Art
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Engraving, Aquatint
Woman and the Free Bird - Original etching
By Louis Icart
Located in Paris, FR
Louis Icart
Woman and the Free Bird
Original etching and stencil
Printed signature in the plate
On vellum 16 x 22 cm (c. 6.5 x 9 in)
Excellent condition
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Early 20th Century Modern Louis Icart Art
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Etching
Louis Icart Etching "Badende" ( Bathers ), 1926
By Louis Icart
Located in Berlin, DE
Art Deco, colored etching by Louis Icart ( 1888-1950 ), France. Signed in pencil lower right: Louis Icart. Framed.
Dimensions: 21.85 x 18.11 in ( 55,5 x 46 cm )
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Early 20th Century Art Deco Louis Icart Art
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"Café place Blanche", 20th Century Oil on Canvas by French Artist Louis Icart
By Louis Icart
Located in Madrid, ES
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...
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1920s Art Deco Louis Icart Art
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Oil, Canvas
Hiding Place, Framed Etching 1927 by Louis Icart
By Louis Icart
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Louis Icart, French (1888 - 1950)
Title: Hiding Place
Year: 1927
Medium: Etching, signed in pencil
Image Size: 18 x 14.5 inches
Size: 19 x 15.5 in. (48.26 x 39.37 cm)
Frame S...
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1920s Art Nouveau Louis Icart Art
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Etching
Dreaming Girl - Original etching
By Louis Icart
Located in Paris, FR
Louis Icart
Dreaming Girl
Original etching and stencil
Printed signature in the plate
On vellum 19 x 29 cm (c. 8 x 12 in)
Excellent condition
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Early 20th Century Modern Louis Icart Art
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Etching
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