Description:

Louis Icart, colour etching “Jeune femme et perroquet”, listed French artist.

Elegant figurative composition depicting a young woman and a cockatoo in a decorative and theatrical scene.
Signed in the plate and dated 1921. Catalogue number 299.

Origin: France.
Material: Paper.
Dimensions: Visual size 34 × 28 cm, total size 52 × 42 cm.
Period: 1921.
Condition: Excellent condition with minor signs of wear.

Bio:
Louis Icart (1888–1950) was a French painter and printmaker born in Toulouse. He moved to Paris in 1907 where he studied drawing, painting and printmaking. Icart became particularly renowned during the 1920s and 1930s for his elegant colour etchings depicting fashionable and playful female figures. His work blends the refined line and grace of eighteenth-century masters such as Watteau, Boucher and Fragonard with the decorative sophistication associated with the Art Deco era. His prints achieved great popularity both in Europe and especially in the United States, and they remain among the most recognisable graphic works of interwar Paris.