3821 - Louis Icart, "Bathers"

Louis Icart, "Bathers" three women beneath a group of trees by the water’s edge, colour etching, 1926, signed ‘Louis Icart’ in lead to the right of the image, print mark on the plate above the image, tinted, framed with a passe-partout and behind glass, image dimensions approx. 51.2 x 43.5 cm. Artist information: born Justin Louis Laurent Icart, also known as “Helli”, a leading French painter, draughtsman and printmaker of the Art Deco period (1888, Toulouse - 1950, Paris); turned to art at an early age, initially working as a fashion illustrator for the leading designers of his time; settled in Paris from 1907 and increasingly turned his attention to printmaking, particularly etching; exhibited at the Salon de la Société des Artistes Français and the Salon des Humoristes; from 1922, numerous exhibitions in the USA, including in New York and Philadelphia; source: Vollmer and the internet.