Belle gravure ancienne Louis Icart portrait femme ballerine pointe danse art déco

Louis Icart (1888-1950) – Fair Dancer – the dancer adjusting her pointe shoes, color engraving signed in pencil, dry stamp, large format
Ballet dancer in a vaporous tutu, in full suspension, crowned with roses, in an atmosphere of a nocturnal scene and luminous powders. The whole plays on gray values ​​and pink highlights (flowers, lips, slippers), with this mixture of worldly grace and evanescence typical of Art Deco images. Signature in pencil “Louis Icart” at the bottom right. Dry stamp visible at the bottom left and handwritten numbering “2.”
A sheet of very “Roaring Twenties” refinement, where elegance dissolves into vapor: a diaphanous silhouette, almost unreal, sculpted by the velvety passages and the nervousness of the cross-hatching. The construction favors the magnitude of the movement (corolla tutu, floral trail) and the frontality of the pattern, while the colored highlights — discreet but strategic — give the note of flesh and perfume. A decorative image with immediate evocative power.