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Les Poèmes - Original Rare Book Illustrated after Edouard Manet - 18891889
1889
About the Item
Les Poèmes is an original modern rare book written by Edgar Allan Poe (Boston, 1809 - Baltimore, 1849) and illustrated by Edouard Manet (Paris, 1832 - Paris, 1883) in 1889.
Original First edition with Manet’s drawings.
Published by Léon Vanier, Paris.
Format: Large 8°. The dimensions and the weight are indicative.
The book includes 167 pages with 7 reproductions of drawings realized by E. Manet.
Good conditions.
Edoaurd Manet (Paris, 1832 - Paris, 1883). He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life and a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism. All of his artworks are so special with their loose brushstrokes, nuanced color, unusual cropping, and sense of light. But in his life, he never participated in any exhibition of Impressionism. Only in 1863 and 1867, he held two solo exhibitions. Manet was significant in formulating Realist principles, as well as in developing Impressionism in the 1870s. Manet’s Realist painting Le Déjeuner sur l’Herbe (Luncheon on the Grass) is widely celebrated as one of the most scandalous and ground-breaking artworks ever created in the history of art. This bold artwork outraged the French beholders due to both its subject matter and its painterly style. The artist rendered the figures in soft focus, while broadly painting the background. One hostile critic commented on it: “A commonplace woman of the demimonde, as naked as can be, shamelessly lolls between two dandies dressed to the teeth. These latter look like schoolboys on a holiday, perpetrating an outrage to play the man. This is a young man’s practical joke - a shameful, open sore”. In reality, Manet only sought to reaffirm the essence of painting. Manet intended to move away from illusionism toward an open acknowledgment of painting’s properties. Visual incongruities express Manet’s persistence on focusing on the pictorial structure of his painting, in keeping with his modernist concern in observing the essential principles of the medium. He died in Paris on 30 April 1883.
Edgar Allan Poe (Boston, 1809 - Baltimore, 1849). American short-story writer, poet, critic, and editor who is famous for his cultivation of mystery and the macabre. His tale “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” (1841) initiated the modern detective story, and the atmosphere in his tales of horror is unrivaled in American fiction. His “The Raven” (1845) numbers among the best-known poems in the national literature.
- Creation Year:1889
- Dimensions:Height: 10.04 in (25.5 cm)Width: 6.5 in (16.5 cm)Depth: 0.79 in (2 cm)
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- After:Édouard Manet (1832 - 1883, French)
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- Condition:Insurance may be requested by customers as additional service, contact us for more information.
- Gallery Location:Roma, IT
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