Vintage 1928 Louis Icart Faust colored and 50 similar items

Vintage 1928 Louis Icart Faust colored Etching Artist Signed # Limited Edition Condition:pre loved only to mention is a darkening spot on the top corner which is not affecting the etching itself. If re framed wont be noticed. Artist: Louis Icart Title: Faust Medium: Original Etching with Hand Watercolor on Paper Signature: Hand signed by the Artist Size: Framed approximately 27 inches x 19 inches Framed: Framed as Shown 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. 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.