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Louis Lcart Anxiously look forward to mk286 29.5 x 41.8 cm 1912 Nian
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Louis Lcart Moonlight reverie mk286 24.5 x 19.5 cm 1922 Nian
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Louis Lcart In the nest mk286 29.8 x 49.6 cm 1922 Nian
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Louis Lcart Blue Parrot mk286 22.8 x 28 cm 1922 Nian
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Louis Lcart Black Dog mk286 39.5 x 49.6 cm 1919 Nian
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Louis Lcart Confused mk286 50.8 x 63.5 cm 1920 Nian
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Louis Lcart Kitten mk286 50 x 65 cm 1920 Nian
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Louis Lcart In the dream mk286 43.2 x 30.5 cm 1928 Nian
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Louis Lcart Dolls mk286 33 x 44.4 cm 1924 Nian
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Louis Lcart Prior to the masquerade mk286 21.5 x 33 cm 1921 Nian
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Louis Lcart Fur Gloves mk286 29.2 x 52 cm 1914 Nian
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Louis Lcart The buttons are not careful mk286 28 x 33 cm 1921 Nian
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Louis Lcart Girls and to take the dog mk286 54.6 x 42 cm 1923 Nian
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Louis Lcart Dream Girls mk286 30 x 24 cm 1921 Nian
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Louis Lcart Scattered orange mk286 29.8 x 39.8 cm 1921 Nian
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Louis Lcart Golden Apple mk286 19.7 x 27.3 cm 1922 Nian
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Louis Lcart Tsar mk286 19.6 x 24 cm 1922 Nian
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Louis Lcart And butterfly girl playing mk286 30.6 x 43 cm 1920 Nian
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Louis Lcart Rich fruit mk286 33.6 x 50 cm 1922 Nian
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Louis Lcart Summer Bird mk286 40 x 51.7 cm 1920 Nian Nian 33.6 x 50 cm 1922
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Louis Lcart
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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 Traversi??re-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 Honor?? Fragonard.
In Icart's drawings, one sees the Impressionists Degas and Monet and, in his rare watercolors, the Symbolists Odilon Redon and Gustave Moreau. In fact, Icart lived outside the fashionable artistic movements of the time and was not completely sympathetic to contemporary art. Nonetheless, his Parisian scenes are a documentation of the life he saw around him and they are nearly as popular today as when they were first produced.
In 1914 Icart had met a magical, effervescent eighteen-year-old blonde named Fanny Volmers, at the time an employee of the fashion house Paquin. She would eventually become his wife and a source of artistic inspiration for the rest of his life.
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