1984HP Louis ICART Figurine Le Sofa Art Deco LOW NUMBER 930 of Ltd Ed. 10.000

  

Louis ICART Figurine "1937 Le Sofa" ONLY. "1937 Le Sofa" Art Deco and it is number 930. Which is a VERY LOW NUMBER! Of Limited Edition 10,000.

Woman with short and styled blonde hair and red lipstick wearing a. She is sitting on a high back black sofa.

Otes: "Exclusively distributed by Heirloom Tradition" on the base underside. The figurine measures 5 3/8" tall, 9 1/2" wide and 4 1/2 deep. Excellent condition with no cracks, chips or anything wrong. I also have another piece by Louis Icart and it is called.

And you can see it in the last photo. Louis Icart lived from 1880 to 1950 and made a. Rintmaker and Engraver in Paris and did a lot of his work in the Art Deco Style. PLEASE SEE HIS BIO BELOW. Ere is Louis Icart's biography. Louis Icart was born in Toulouse, France. He began drawing at an early age. He was particularly interested in fashion, and became famous for his sketches almost immediately.

He worked for major design studios at a time when fashion was undergoing a radical change-from the fussiness of the late nineteenth century to the simple, clingy lines of the early twentieth century. He was first son of Jean and Elisabeth Icart and was officially named Louis Justin Laurent Icart. The use of his initials L. Would be sufficient in this household.

Therefore, from the moment of his birth he was dubbed'Helli'. The Icart family lived modestly in a small brick home on rue Traversière-de-la-balance, in the culturally rich Southern French city of Toulouse, which was the home of many prominent writers and artists, the most famous being Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

Icart fought in World War I. He relied on his art to stem his anguish, sketching on every available surface. It was not until his move to Paris in 1907 that Icart would concentrate on painting, drawing and the production of countless beautiful etchings, which have served (more than the other mediums) to indelibly preserve his name in twentieth century art history. The prints, most of which were aquatints and drypoints, showed great skill. Because they were much in demand, Icart frequently made two editions (one European, the other American) to satisfy his public.

Art Deco, a term coined at the 1925 Paris Exposition des Arts Decoratifs, had taken its grip on the Paris of the 1920s. By the late 1920s Icart, working for both publications and major fashion and design studios, had become very successful, both artistically and financially. His etchings reached their height of brilliance in this era of Art Deco, and Icart had become the symbol of the epoch. Yet, although Icart has created for us a picture of Paris and New York life in the 1920s and 1930s, he worked in his own style, derived principally from the study of eighteenth-century French masters such as Jean Antoine Watteau, François Boucher and Jean Honoré Fragonard. 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.

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• Country/Region of Manufacture: Japan
• Item Height:: 5 3/8\
• Item Width: 4 1/2\
• Material: Bisque Porcelain
• Type: Figurine
• Color: Multi-Color
• Subject: Woman on Sofa
• Finish: Bisque
• Item Length: 9 1/2\
• Occasion: All Occasions
• Brand: Louis Icart