Les Fleurs du mal. Illustrés par Henri Matisse. Histoire de l’art Exhibition catalog October 10-31

Exhibition catalog October 10-31

missionaries destroyed the ancestral Magarevian culture in just a few years

Voyages antérieurs au dix-neuvième siècle

especially since these "light bubbles of imagination that are dappled with infinite literary reminiscences

Philippe Barde

Les Fleurs du mal. Illustrés par Henri Matisse. Histoire de l’art Exhibition catalog October 10-31During the summer of 1944, Matisse decided to illustrate Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal, as he did for Mallarm, Ronsard, Charles d'Orlans, and many others. He drew 34 faces in grease pencil, compositions that would adorn the 1947 edition, published by La Bibliothque franaise. The 150 years that separate us from the first edition of Les Fleurs du mal have only confirmed its inaugural value and impact on artists. In 1857, the poet's aim was to shed the