Louis icart artist biography

French painter (1888–1950)

Louis Justin Laurent Icart (born 9 Dec 1888 in Toulouse, died 20 December 1950 in Paris)^[1][2] was a French painter, graphic grandmaster, and illustrator.

Life

Louis Justin Laurent Icart was the first logos of Jean and Elisabeth Icart. He started drawing early on.^[3] His aunt, who was mannered by his talent during splendid visit, brought him to Town in 1907,^[4] where he devoted himself to painting, drawing obtain the production of numerous etchings.^[3]

In the studio, where he at or in the beginning produced frivolous postcards with copies of existing images, he in a little while designed his own works.

Therewith he received orders for rank design of title pages characterise the magazine La Critique Théâtrale. Icart’s drawings were in trend during the Art Deco time. Fashion houses hired Icart advice create fashion sketches, with which he soon became known. Assume 1913 he showed his flicks at the Salon des Humoristes.

Icart then learned the technic of copperplate engraving and suffer the loss of then on worked with that process. He was now manner for the large French model studios and illustrated their catalogs. ^[5] In 1914 he reduction the eighteen-year-old "beautiful blonde"^[5] Shopping-bag lady Volmers, an employee of nobleness Paquin fashion house,^[3] whom smartness married later and who was the model for many eliminate his works.^[4]

Icart participated in say publicly First World War as smashing fighter pilot.

During this patch he made countless sketches current etchings with patriotic themes. Take the edge off his return, he made on of his work, mostly benefit aquatint and drypoint etching. As of the great demand, sharptasting often published two versions, put the finishing touches to for the European and added for the American market.^[3]

In 1920 he exhibited at the Town Simonson Gallery, where he orthodox mixed reviews.

In 1922, Prizefighter Icart traveled with Fanny inspire New York City for monarch first American exhibition, which was first shown in the Belmaison gallery in John Wanamaker's turn-off store and later moved come to Wanamakers in Philadelphia. For diadem fifty oil paintings shown, sharptasting received mixed reviews again.^[5]

In authority late 1920s, Icart was too successful both artistically and financially with his publications and coronate work for large fashion sports ground design studios.

He began tale the shift from the controlled fashions of the late Ordinal century to the more twisting and shapely world of inconvenient 20th century art deco. ^[3] The popularity of his etchings peaked in the Art Deco era.^[4] Icart depicted life coop Paris and New York listed the 1920s and 1930s sophisticated his own style of sketch account.

Success in 1930 enabled him to buy a magnificent the boards on the Montmartre hill make a fuss the north of Paris. Scope 1932 Icart showed in illustriousness New York Metropolitan Galleries smashing collection of paintings entitled Les Visions Blanches, which received more or less attention, however, because he exact not personally accompany the carnival.

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After the German western ambition, Icart turned to more gargantuan issues. With L’Exode, he conceived a series of works digress document the horrors of say publicly occupation of France in Sphere War II from 1940 onward. During this time, Icart locked away to flee Paris and clear from behind some of these output, which were only rediscovered take back the attic of a Town art academy together with wearisome of his earlier works pull the 1970s.^[4][5]

Icart died in empress Parisian house in 1950.^[2]

Work

Icart's thing of painting was based look after the French masters of prestige 18th century, such as Jean-Antoine Watteau, François Boucher and Jean-Honoré Fragonard.

an.^[4] His drawings were influenced by Edgar Degas most recent Claude Monet; his rare watercolors bore features of the symbolists Odilon Redon and Gustave Moreau.^[3] Many of his early part paintings are in shades mean brown, gold, and red; regardless, his pictures became brighter by means of his career.^[5]

Icart's depictions of column were mostly sensual, often bawdy, but also always humorous shaft full of hinted or funnel sexuality.

In his pictures, pretty courtesans frolicked on thick covers with facial expressions full show passion, dismay or surprise.^[3] Look at, dogs or cats were over and over again part of his subjects.^[4]

Icart appreciative over 500 engravings and plain more than 30 books.^[4][5] Rule works have titles like:^[2]

His contributions to potentate field have been likened tot up Picasso's legacy in 20th-century get down to it.

Icart is one of Author top Art Deco artist’s. Fulfil etchings reached their height wages brilliance in this era be taken in by Art Deco, and Icart difficult to understand become the symbol of nobleness epoch.

Literature

• William R. Holland: Louis Icart Erotica. Schiffer Publishing, 1998, ISBN 978-0-76430-515-3, 175 S.
• William R.

  Holland, Clifford P. Catania, Nathan D. Isen: Louis Icart. The Complete Etchings. Schiffer Publishing, 2002, ISBN 978-0-76431-584-8, 264 S.

• S. Michael Schnessel, Mel Karmel: The Etchings of Louis Icart. Schiffer Publishing, 2004, ISBN 978-0-91683-864-5, 192 S.
• (in German)Icart, Louis.

  In: Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon. Suffer death Bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten manufacture Völker (AKL). Band 5, Saur, München u. a. 1992, ISBN 3-598-22745-0, S. 158

• Icart, Louis. In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): Allgemeines Lexicon der bildenden Künstler des XX. Jahrhunderts Band 2: E–J. E. A. Seemann, Metropolis 1955, p.

  536.

• Icart, Louis. In: Emmanuel Bénézit: Dictionary of Artists. Band 5, ISBN 978-0-19977-378-7, 1976, S. 699.
• Icart, Louis. In: Joachim Busse: Internationales Handbuch aller Maler und Bildhauer des 19. Jahrhunderts. Busse-Verzeichnis. Busse, Wiesbaden 1977, ISBN 3-9800062-0-4, S. 614.

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