Parfum de Fleurs (Love's Blossom) by Louis Icart

Parfum de Fleurs (Loves Blossom) by Louis Icart

Parfum de Fleurs (Love's Blossom)

Louis Icart

Title

Parfum de Fleurs (Love's Blossom)

 
Artist

Louis Icart

  1888 - 1950 (biography)
Year
1937  
Technique
drypoint, aquatint, with hand-coloring on lips & nails 
Image Size
17 x 25" platemark 
Signature
pencil, lower right; Windmill chop in lower left platemark 
Edition Size
unnumbered, from an edition of around 350 
Annotations
copyright in upper right margin 
Reference
Figure 54 in Icart, Schnessel 
Paper
heavy white wove 
State
published 
Publisher
I Brewster & Co. Gallery Inc. Phila. PA 
Inventory ID
13537 
Price
SOLD
Description

A classic Icart image, Schnessel comments it "capitalized on American tastes for Hollywood glamour. Done during the Depression when Hollywood thrived as a way to escape the reality of the time, Icart understood the 'market'."

For more information on Icart please see our biography above.