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ARMAND RASSENFOSSE (LIÈGE 1862-1934)

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€ 1 500
Auction dateClassic
20.03.2024 15:00UTC +02:00
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Lot 132 | ARMAND RASSENFOSSE (LIÈGE 1862-1934)
ARMAND RASSENFOSSE (LIÈGE 1862-1934)

Illustration pour les Fleurs du mal de Charles Baudelaire

signé et monogrammé ‘AR’, inscrit ‘Pièce 124/ La Servante au grand cœur/ dont vous étiez jalouse’ (en bas à droite) et dédicacé à sa femme, Marie Rassenfosse ‘MR’ (en bas à droite)

graphite, plume et encre brune, lavis brun, estompe

12,6 x 16,5 cm (5 x 6 ½ in.)





Inscribed

dans C. Baudelaire, ill. de A. Rassenfosse, Les Fleurs du mal, Paris, Les Cent Bibliophiles, 1899, p. 327, ‘Tableaux parisiens’.



Further details

ARMAND RASSENFOSSE, DESIGN FOR LES FLEURS DU MAL BY CHARLES BAUDELAIRE, GRAPHITE, PEN AND BROWN INK, BROWN WASH, STUMPING, SIGNED WITH MONOGRAM AND INSCRIBED

Commissioned by Eugène Rodrigues, president of the Société des Cent Bibliophiles at the end of the 19th century, Rassenfosse illustrated in colour the 158 poems in Charles Baudelaire’s Fleurs du mal, as well as the chapter headings and tables, producing a total of 167 engravings (N. de Rassenfosse, P. Gillissen and M. Wittock, Rassenfosse ou l’esthétique du livre, Brussels, 2016, p. 38). For this colossal undertaking, he combined different printing techniques (sugar engraving, aquatint, drypoint, etc.) before printing in colour. The present drawing is a study for one of them, for the poem ‘La servante au grand cœur dont vous étiez jalouse’. Other examples of preparatory drawings for illustrating his poems are in the Musée du Louvre (inv. RF 54765, RF 54766). The book remains the most famous and sought-after illustrated edition of Les Fleurs du Mal, being the only one in which all the poems are illustrated with original prints (op. cit., p. 42).
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