Description:

Louis Icart, etching, listed French artist.
"Marchande de Fleurs" or "Fleurs de Paris" "Flower Seller"
Elegant figurative scene depicting a fashionably dressed woman beside a flower cart, with a Parisian city setting suggested in the background. Executed as an etching with finely drawn details and subtle colouring. Signed and bearing a watermark/blind stamp.

Origin: France.
Material: Paper, etching.
Dimensions: Visual size 46 × 30 cm, total size 67 × 53 cm.
Period: Circa 1928.
Condition: Presents in good age-related condition with minor signs of wear.

Bio:
Louis Icart (1888–1950) was a French painter, illustrator and printmaker, particularly renowned for his elegant etchings of female figures and scenes of fashionable Parisian life. He developed a distinctive visual language associated with the refinement of the Art Deco period, combined with a soft and highly decorative line. Icart worked extensively with etching and drypoint, frequently enhanced with hand-applied colour, and his graphic works achieved considerable international popularity during the 1920s and 1930s. Women, fashion, romance and modern metropolitan life are recurring themes throughout his work.