Louis Icart Prints

Engraving by Louis Icart from 1927, "Il Pleut Bergère" model. Original frame. In very good condition. Height: 75 cm Width: 54 cm Thickness: 2 cm Weight: 3 kg Louis Icart (1888-1950...

A captivating original hand-colored etching and aquatint by renowned French artist Louis Icart (1888–1950), titled Whispered Secrets. This romantic and dreamy composition features th...

Art Deco engraving dated 1935. Model: "Ballerina at Rest." Signed Louis Icart. In good condition, some yellowing. Height: 50.5 cm Width: 59.5 cm Weight: 2.1 kg Louis Icart (1888-19...

Louis Icart , French/American, 1888-1950 "Speed II" (Vitesse) etching and aquatint on Arches paper signed lower right, Windmill blindstamp lower left, printed...

Louis Icart (1888-1950, France.) "Flower Seller" (1928) is an original dry point etching with hand watercoloring on paper. It depicts an elegant young lady and a flower vendor in Par...

Louis Icart (1888-1950, France) - "Chestnut Vendor" [Marchand de Marrons -1928] depicts a woman in the Art Deco period standing next to a chestnut vendor with a European skyline in t...

A Louis Icart "Sleeping Beauty" print, pencil signed and framed. Measures- 20.25''H x 24.25''W x 1''D; 24'' x 20.5'' sight

An Art Deco print by Louis Icart offers image of reclining nude woman, pencil signed, matted and framed, c1930. Measures- 19.25''H x 24.75''W x 1''D. Catalogue Note: Ask about DISC...

Erotica etching by Louis Icart from the "Felicia ou Mes Fredaines" series which were included in the 1947 book by Andrea de Nerciat. The book relates sexual escapades of the 18th cen...

Erotica etching by Louis Icart from the "Felicia ou Mes Fredaines" series which were included in the 1947 book by Andrea de Nerciat. The book relates sexual escapades of the 18th cen...

"Mid century reproduction print of “Parasol” by Louis Icart, originally published in 1928, showing a a young woman seated on a stone bench, holding a paper parasol and watching birds nibble berries off her hat. “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...

Pair of original Art Deco etchings with nudes in the waves. One called La Source, the other Le jet d'eau. Signed by Louis Icart (1888-1950) with windmill blindstamp, dated 1936. E...