BAUDELAIRE AND DIGNIMONT - Les Fleurs du Mal 1947
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BAUDELAIRE, Charles (1821-1867) - Andre DIGNIMONT (1891-1965). Les Fleurs du Mal. [Paris]: Editions De La Maison Française, 1947. Quarto. (11 1/8 x 8 7/8 inches). 225pp. Text in French. Color illustrations by Andre Dignimont and engraved on wood in colors by Gerard Angiolini. Loose in original wrappers with glassine jacket. Housed in slipcase. Previous owner's bookplate. Number 111 of 500 copies. Andre Dignimont, in a career spanning over four decades, primarily worked in illustrating books and theatre decoration. He formed a distinct personal style using washes of watercolour incorporated into pen and ink. This style perfectly evokes the emotions of this collection of Baudelaire's poetry which expresses the changing nature of beauty in modern, industrializing Paris during the 19th century and coined the term modernité (modernity) to designate the fleeting, ephemeral experience of life in an urban metropolis.
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BAUDELAIRE AND DIGNIMONT - Les Fleurs du Mal 1947
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