William Fowler Art

An early 19th century print entitled "Bow Street Office", an illustration (Plate 11) from "The Microcosm of London", published in London in 1808 by R. Acker...

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...

Original The Pit and the Pendulum “Il Pozzo e Il Pendolo” vintage Italian movie poster. Linen backed in very good condition, ready to fr...

A hand-colored engraving of the interior The German Chapel, St. James Palace in London, England from 'The History of the Royal Residences of Windsor Castle, St. James Palace, Carlton House, Kensington Palace, Hampton Court, Buckingham House, and Frogmore', commissioned by the British Royal Family. The work is one of the finest depictions of interiors ever published. The engraving was created by Daniel Havel (1786-1826) after a painting by Charles Wild (1781-1835) and published by William Henry Pyne (1770–1843) in 1819. The print is presented in a gold-colored wood museum style frame and an elaborate light grey French mat with highlighted gold and royal blue bands. A certificate of authenticity from Trowbridge Gallery...

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...

La Lampe Polonoise Aquatint, 1771 Signed and dated in the plate lower left Condition: Yellowing to the sheet Image size: 6 1/8 x 8 1/8 inches Reference: Hedou 147 ii/II Provenance: C...

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...

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...

Stamped verso with certification of authenticity for Jane Voitle Mellin (American, born 1952). and created circa 1975. An atmospheric, sugar-lift aquatint showing a young woman, nud...

Created circa 1975 and stamped, verso, with certification of authenticity for Jane Voitle Mellin (American, born 1952). Paper dimensions: 17.25 x 12 inches An atmospheric, sugar-lift aquatint showing a young woman seated at a claw foot table...