Charles Courtry Prints and Multiples

Aquating Engraving Image Size: approx. 20 1/4 x 13 3/8 Framed Size: 28 x 20.5 inches Pencil Signed Lower Right Louis Justin Laurent Icart was born in Toulouse in 1890 and died in Paris in 1950. He lived in New York City in the 1920s, where he became known for his Art-Deco color etchings of glamourous women. He was first son of Jean and Elisabeth Icart and was officially named Louis Justin Laurent Icart. The use of his initials L.I. 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 entered the l'Ecole Superieure de Commerce de Toulouse in order to continue his studies for a career in business, particularly banking (his father's profession). However, he soon discovered the play writings of Victor Hugo (1802-1885), which were to change the course of his life. Icart borrowed whatever books he could find by Hugo at the Toulouse library, devouring the tales, rich in both romantic imagery and the dilemmas of the human condition. It was through Icart's love of the theater that he developed a taste for all the arts, though the urge to paint was not as yet as strong for him as the urge to act. 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. 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...

This proof depicts one of Jim Dine's signatures motifs, a deep red heart, which drips down the page. Along the right side of the heart, hand-drawn text reads: “Red design for satin h...

Henri Matisse Patitcha 1947 Aquatint on BFK Rives paper, Edition of 25 Paper size: 55.5 x 38 cms (22 x 15 ins) Image size: 34.9 x 27.6 cm (13 3/4 x 10 7/8 ins) HM15405 Selected Coll...

This is an original 19th century hand-colored McKenney and Hall lithograph of a Native American entitled "Hoo-Wan-Ne-Ka, A Winnebago Chief", lithographed by J. T. Bowen after a paint...

Artist: Pablo Picasso Title: Square Head of a Woman with Full Lips Portfolio: Carmen Medium: Etching on Montval wove paper Year: 1949 Edition Size: 289 Framed Size: 18 3/4" x 16 3/4"...

Pencil signed, titled, and numbered 46/55 in the margin. Artist: Trevor Southey Title: "Shell Shedding" Medium: Drypoint Etching Edition: 46/55 Male nude against an abstract back...

This is an original 19th century hand-colored McKenney and Hall lithograph of a Native American entitled "Le Soldat-Du-Chene, An Osage Chief", lithographed by J. T. Bowen after a pai...

This is an original 19th century hand-colored McKenney and Hall lithograph of a Native American entitled "Tah-Ro-Hon, An Ioway Warrior", lithographed by J. T. Bowen after a painting by Charles Bird King and published by Rice and Hart & Co. in Philadelphia in 1848. For his portrait Tah-Ro-Hon is wearing a feathered multicolored headdress, long ornamental earrings, a chain necklace, a presidential piece medal on a ribbon necklace and he holds a multicolored staff with feathers. This original McKenney and Hall hand-colored lithograph is printed on a sheet measuring 10" high and 7" wide. There is a tiny spot of red paint adjacent to a red feather hanging...

Pablo Picasso Peintre peignant la nuque de son jeune modele, 1968 From La Serie 347 Aquatint with sugar lift on vélin de Rives paper Edition 43/50 Hanf signed low right Image Size 1...

Offered at an exceptional price, this piece is in excellent condition and will ship rolled. Edition Artist Proof. Signed and numbered by Norman Rockwell. Published 1973, Gallery Ret...

This artwork titled Jan Uytenbogaert" 1639 is an etching on paper After Rembrandt Van Rijn, 1606-1669, plate engraved By French renown engraver Charles Armand Durand, 1831-1905. Sign...

Salvador Dalí Le Chateau de Gala (Gala's Castle) from After 50 Years of Surrealism Original etching, hand colored 1974 Image size: 15 3/...