Louis Icart’s fabulous living (note art nouveau bed, with mirror) and work space in Montmartre, with opposing mezzanines and floor to ceiling windows. Desmazières’ friend V. W. was living there for a while, affording the opportunity to create this masterwork.
Accompanying the deluxe edition of Vol. I of the Desmazières print catalogue raisonné,
this etched gem, Casque d’apparat, is seldom found apart from it. Rare and highly sought after.
Dare we say, in La Tour, Mohlitz’ unsurpassed skill with the burin (engraving tool) enables the creation of a real tour de force.
In Morgonljus, the heavily worked foreground subserviently emphasizes a luminous distance.
Verkstadsfönster is one of a very few depictions, in Norrman’s extensive oeuvre, of an interior. In this case a powerful assertion of his artistic endeavors, with the sole non-rectilinear element representing a personal credo.