Icart, Louis Justin Laurent

(1888 Toulouse-1950 Paris) (France)

   Painter, etcher, and illustrator. One of the most famous Art Deco era artists. Depictions of elegant, sensuous women were frequent elements in his art. There are some more explicitly sexual images among his work.

   Reproductions: Garantua et Pantagruel series; 1936; lithograph; Klinger, 1983a: figs. 1750-1761 . Indian woman performs cun-nilingus on white woman; Naomi 1998: p. 172 . Indian woman shaves white woman's pubis; etching; Naomi 1998: p. 172 [C]. [Nude woman and Pan/Satyr]; 1930; aquatint; Klinger, 1987b: figs. 165-174 [B].

   [b]Source: Benezit, vol. 7: p. 516; William R. Holland, Louis Icart: erotica (New York: Schifer, 1998); Vollmer II 1955: p. 536.