"Miss America" Etching & Aquatint, 1927 - Louis Icart.
An art-deco etch of a graceful female figure entwined with an early 20th Century United States flag flowing around her.
Louis Icart Miss America (H., C. & I. 325), 1927 Etching and aquatint with touches of hand coloring printed on Rives Bfk paper, signed in pencil, with the artist's blindstamp, published by Les Graveurs Modernes, Paris, copyrighted and dated in the plate, with full margins, in good condition.
Lois Icart was born in the south of France where he rapidly became familiar with the pleasures of the fine arts. The shapes and curves of the female form captured his imagination from an early age after entering into a career as a post-card artist. In the early 20th Century he met a young woman, Fanny Volmers, with whom he entered into a relationship; captured by her beauty. She became his primary model and his muse, indeed, within 10 years the United States had become a giant market devouring his etchings through the 1920s.
ZFC Significant Flag
Item is Framed
Sources:
Louis Icart, French (1880 - 1950), Ro Gallery, 20 November 2011, from: http://rogallery.com/Icart_Louis/icart-biography.htm
Aquatint, Wikipedia, 20 November 2011m from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquatint
Image Credits:
Zaricor Flag Collection
