ICART ** LE QUARTET ** GICLEE

Artist: Louis Icart
Title: Le Quartet
Medium: Fine Art Giclee on Paper
Signature: Plated Signed
Limited Edition: 175
Image Size: Approximately 15 inches x 19 inches
Paper Size: Approximately 17 ½ inches x 21 inches
Framed: Unframed
Biography: Louis Icart was born in Toulouse, France. 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. Icart's portrayal of women is usually sensuous, often erotic, yet always imbued an element of humor, which is as important as the implied or direct sexuality. The beautiful courtesans cavort on rich, thick pillows; their facial expressions projecting passion, dismay or surprise, for the women of Louis Icart are the women of France as we have imagined them to be Eve, Leda, Venus, Scheherazade and Joan of Arc, all wrapped up into an irresistible package. Warranty: Item GUARANTEED to be as described
Condition Report: Great