Donna Leatherman Editions Figurative Prints

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...

Artist: Red Grooms (1937) Title: Albert Einstein and Marilyn Monroe Year: circa 1987 Medium: Monotype and mixed media on wove paper Size: 47.62 x 31.87 inches Condition: Excellent I...

JAMES ABBOTT McNEILL WHISTLER (1834-1903) THE RAG GATHERERS 1858 (Glasgow 29 v/v, - K.23) Etching on laid paper, signed and dated in the plate, image 5 7/8” x 3 ½”, full sheet 8 x...

Ernest Stephen Lumsden RE, RSA Ernest Stephen Lumsden RE, RSA (1883 – 1948) Buddha Frame Size: 40.7cm x 52.5cm Image: 21cm x 34 cm Lumsden reference: 254 Edition 33/50 Whatman w...

Abstracted, figurative monotype of six figures in a landscape 12 x 24 inch image on 22 x 33 inch Rives BFK paper Rives BFK paper is made of cotton, has deckled edges and is acid-fre...

Etching and aquatint, 1918. Wide margins. Second state (of 2) with the darker toned background. Edition of approximately only 13 (in both the first and second states combined). Si...

ANDRÉ MASSON – "LA JAMBE DÉGUISÉE" ⚜ Etching with Aquatint ⚜ Hand Signed Lower Right ⚜ Numbered 23/50 ⚜ Conservation Frame SURREAL FIGURATION AND AUTOMATIC LINE Created in 1975, La ...

Paul César Helleu Vannes 1859 - 1927 Paris "Study of 4 women" Etching on handmade paper Signed in pencil lower left Inscribed lower right with "Unique epreuve, ....." Rare proof prin...

Sepulcher of Carlo di Angiò is an original etching, realized by Piroli written below the image down in the XIX century, the table is XII is written at the top of the image on the rig...

Artist: Salvador Dali, Spanish (1904 - 1989) Title: Le Legacy from Historia de Don Quichotte de la Mancha Year: 1981 Medium: Etching on Arches, signed and numbered in pencil Edition:...

Dramatic, large scale black, white, green and grey Western American landscape with river, grassy banks, trees, and rolling clouds filling the sky. Hang in minimalist, modern, and con...

The boat symbolizes the passage of our coming into birth, journeying through life, and eventually guiding us to our last crossing. "...leading us back to the swaying, gliding somnole...