Louis Icart was born in France. He started his career as a fashion designer in 1913, with the etching process. He had great mastery in dry point and line etching, for which he is renown today.
Icart became an instant success as soon as he published his work. His work had universal appeal as he idealized women in a light, airy form. The women have great beauty and grace as well as the animals he illustrated.
It was the appreciation of popular taste that maintained the Icart vogue, which has been renewed with the resurgence of the Art Deco period over the last 10 years. Icart did the last of his etchings in 1940, and died in 1950, leaving his widow Fanny, whom he had used as his model. It was Icart that originated the famous saying: "Come up and see my etchings some time." He was indeed a master etcher who knew how to please the masses with his light and delightful subjects. |