Posts tagged "Baudelaire"
  1. Notes: 432 / 10 months ago  from carrefouretrange (originally from les-retrogaleries-de-gutsy)
    fantastic Jacques Roubille illustration of Les Fleurs du Mal  thanks to aucarrefouretrange & les-retrogaleries-de-gutsy more illustrations at lesretrogaleriesdemistergutsy and some more Baudelaire here  

    fantastic Jacques Roubille illustration of Les Fleurs du Mal 

    thanks to aucarrefouretrange & les-retrogaleries-de-gutsy

    more illustrations at lesretrogaleriesdemistergutsy and some more Baudelaire here


     

     
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  2. Notes: 72 / 2 years ago  from bookmarklet
    Beresford Egan illustration from a 1947 US Sylvan Press edition of Flowers of Evil courtesy of 50 Watts

    Beresford Egan illustration from a 1947 US Sylvan Press edition of Flowers of Evil

    courtesy of 50 Watts

     
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  3. Notes: 87 / 2 years ago  from bookmarklet
    Carlo Farneti’s illustration for Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal,1935 [see also] old fave from A Journey Round My Skull [reminds me of this frontispiece;]

    Carlo Farneti’s illustration for Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal,1935 [see also]

    old fave from A Journey Round My Skull

    [reminds me of this frontispiece;]


     
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  4. Notes: 56 / 2 years ago 
     Poet under the influence of hashish Self  portrait drawn w. pen by Charles Baudelaire reproduced in Les fleurs du mal, Kultura, Beograd, 1970 [this copy I have is especially dear to me since it was a gift from my mum to my dad when they started to date back  in 1974]

     Poet under the influence of hashish

    Self  portrait drawn w. pen by Charles Baudelaire

    reproduced in Les fleurs du mal, Kultura, Beograd, 1970

    [this copy I have is especially dear to me since it was a gift from my mum to my dad when they started to date back  in 1974]

     
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  5. Notes: 67 / 2 years ago  from frenchtwist
    Les Paradis artificiels

    You are sitting and smoking; you believe that you are sitting in your pipe, and that your pipe is smoking you; you are exhaling yourself in bluish clouds. You feel just fine in this position, and only one thing gives you worry or concern: how will you ever be able to get out of your pipe?

    Charles Baudelaire, 1860

    thanks to frenchtwist:]

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  6. Notes: 121 / 2 years ago 
    Anywhere out of the world by Charles Baudelaire  This life is a hospital where every patient is possessed with the desire to change beds; one man would like to suffer in front of the stove, and another believes that he would recover his health beside the window.It always seems to me that I should feel well in the place where I am not, and this question of removal is one which I discuss incessantly with my soul.‘Tell me, my soul, poor chilled soul, what do you think of going to live in Lisbon? It must be warm there, and there you would invigorate yourself like a lizard. This city is on the sea-shore; they say that it is built of marble and that the people there have such a hatred of vegetation that they uproot all the trees. There you have a landscape that corresponds to your taste! a landscape made of light and mineral, and liquid to reflect them!’My soul does not reply.‘Since you are so fond of stillness, coupled with the show of movement, would you like to settle in Holland, that beatifying country? Perhaps you would find some diversion in that land whose image you have so often admired in the art galleries. What do you think of Rotterdam, you who love forests of masts, and ships moored at the foot of houses?’My soul remains silent.‘Perhaps Batavia attracts you more? There we should find, amongst other things, the spirit of Europe married to tropical beauty.’Not a word. Could my soul be dead?‘Is it then that you have reached such a degree of lethargy that you acquiesce in your sickness? If so, let us flee to lands that are analogues of death. I see how it is, poor soul! We shall pack our trunks for Tornio. Let us go farther still to the extreme end of the Baltic; or farther still from life, if that is possible; let us settle at the Pole. There the sun only grazes the earth obliquely, and the slow alternation of light and darkness suppresses variety and increases monotony, that half-nothingness. There we shall be able to take long baths of darkness, while for our amusement the aurora borealis shall send us its rose-coloured rays that are like the reflection of Hell’s own fireworks!’At last my soul explodes, and wisely cries out to me: ‘No matter where! No matter where! As long as it’s out of the world!’  etching/aquatint from Edouard Chimot’s edition of Le Spleen de Paris,1926 [more illustrations for Baudelaire]

    Anywhere out of the world by Charles Baudelaire

     This life is a hospital where every patient is possessed with the desire to change beds; one man would like to 
    suffer in front of the stove, and another believes that he would recover his health beside the window.
    It always seems to me that I should feel well in the place where I am not, and this question of removal is one 
    which I discuss incessantly with my soul.
    ‘Tell me, my soul, poor chilled soul, what do you think of going to live in Lisbon? It must be warm there, and there 
    you would invigorate yourself like a lizard. This city is on the sea-shore; they say that it is built of marble 
    and that the people there have such a hatred of vegetation that they uproot all the trees. There you have a landscape 
    that corresponds to your taste! a landscape made of light and mineral, and liquid to reflect them!’
    My soul does not reply.
    ‘Since you are so fond of stillness, coupled with the show of movement, would you like to settle in Holland, 
    that beatifying country? Perhaps you would find some diversion in that land whose image you have so often admired 
    in the art galleries. What do you think of Rotterdam, you who love forests of masts, and ships moored at the foot of 
    houses?’
    My soul remains silent.
    ‘Perhaps Batavia attracts you more? There we should find, amongst other things, the spirit of Europe 
    married to tropical beauty.’
    Not a word. Could my soul be dead?
    ‘Is it then that you have reached such a degree of lethargy that you acquiesce in your sickness? If so, let us 
    flee to lands that are analogues of death. I see how it is, poor soul! We shall pack our trunks for Tornio. Let us go 
    farther still to the extreme end of the Baltic; or farther still from life, if that is possible; let us settle at the Pole. There 
    the sun only grazes the earth obliquely, and the slow alternation of light and darkness suppresses variety and 
    increases monotony, that half-nothingness. There we shall be able to take long baths of darkness, while for our 
    amusement the aurora borealis shall send us its rose-coloured rays that are like the reflection of Hell’s own 
    fireworks!’
    At last my soul explodes, and wisely cries out to me: ‘No matter where! No matter where! As long as it’s out 
    of the world!’ 

    etching/aquatint from Edouard Chimot’s edition of Le Spleen de Paris,1926

    [more illustrations for Baudelaire]

     
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  7. Notes: 24 / 2 years ago 
    Illustration for Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal by Federico Beltran Masses [L’Atelier D’Art Dreux-Barry, Paris 1946] via vintageprints  [more FdM illustrations here]

    Illustration for Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal by Federico Beltran Masses

    [L’Atelier D’Art Dreux-Barry, Paris 1946]

    via vintageprints 

    [more FdM illustrations here]

     
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  8. Notes: 75 / 2 years ago 
    While we’re at Spleen and Ideal  Famous illustration made in 1907 by Carlos Schwabe *

    While we’re at Spleen and Ideal 

    Famous illustration made in 1907 by Carlos Schwabe *

     
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  9. Notes: 128 / 2 years ago  from rery
    and me likes what rery makes,this is marvelous! spleen et idéal, ou spleen est idéal

    and me likes what rery makes,this is marvelous!

    spleen et idéal, ou spleen est idéal

     
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  10. Notes: 16 / 2 years ago 
    Nous nous embarquerons sur la mer des Ténèbres/Mermaids, 1922 by Henry Chapront [Illustration for Le Voyage from Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal ***] thanks to Adventures in the Print Trade

    Nous nous embarquerons sur la mer des Ténèbres/Mermaids, 1922

    by Henry Chapront

    [Illustration for Le Voyage from Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal ***]

    thanks to Adventures in the Print Trade

     
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  11. Notes: 143 / 2 years ago  from frenchtwist
    The Favours of the Moon
    THE MOON, who is caprice itself, looked through the window while you were sleeping in your cradle, and said to herself: ‘I like this child.’
    …
    However, in the expansion of her joy, the Moon filled the whole room with phosphorescent vapour, like a luminous poison; and all the living light thought and said: ‘You shall suffer for ever the influence of my kiss. You shall be beautiful in my fashion. You shall love that which I love and that which loves me: water, clouds, silence and the night; the immense green sea; the formless and multiform streams; the place where you shall not be; the lover whom you shall not know; flowers of monstrous shape; perfumes that cause delirium; cats that shudder, swoon and curl up on pianos and groan like women, with a voice that is hoarse and gentle!
    …
    And that, my dear, cursed, spoiled child, is why I am now lying at your feet, seeking in all your person the reflection of the formidable divinity, of the foreknowing godmother, the poisoning wet-nurse of all the lunatics.

    Charles Baudelaire, 1869 

    [from frenchtwist:]

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  12. Notes: 31 / 2 years ago  from jahsonic
    Fantastic,thanks jahsonic:] “Baudelaire’s Dream”, 68 x 108 cm, charcoal New work by Paul Rumsey at the Galerie Béatrice Soulié. The title “Baudelaire’s Dream” may refer to Baudelaire’s dream, a dream Baudelaire recorded and sent to a friend, the object of essays by Michel Butor. (via Galerie Béatrice Soulié - Paul Rumsey)

    Fantastic,thanks jahsonic:]

    “Baudelaire’s Dream”, 68 x 108 cm, charcoal

    New work by Paul Rumsey at the Galerie Béatrice Soulié.

    The title “Baudelaire’s Dream” may refer to Baudelaire’s dream, a dream Baudelaire recorded and sent to a friend, the object of essays by Michel Butor.

    (via Galerie Béatrice Soulié - Paul Rumsey)

     
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  13. Notes: 36 / 2 years ago  from bookmarklet
    Revolte from Les Fleurs du Mal,1900 illustrated by Carlos Schwabe * via Decadenthandbook

    Revolte from Les Fleurs du Mal,1900

    illustrated by Carlos Schwabe *

    via Decadenthandbook

     
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  14. Notes: 100 / 2 years ago  from frenchtwist
    "And your heart, bruised like a peach,
    Is as ripe as your body for sophisticated love."
    -

    Charles Baudelaire, L’Amour du mensonge from Les Fleurs du Malfrenchtwist

    there’s  alter.transl.and full poem  here [and more from fleursdumal;]

    ‘her heart bruised like a peach,

    Is ripe like her body for a skillful lover’  

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  15. Notes: 255 / 2 years ago  from benjaminhilts (originally from book-aesthete)
    great find! and with frontispiece by Felicien Rops;] [Les Epaves version here] via benjaminhilts:book-aesthete:Les Fleurs du Mal Baudelaire, Charles. First Edition, First Issue. Paris, Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, 1858. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, without title-page, dark morocco gilt by Charles Meunier Via Bonham’s

    great find! and with frontispiece by Felicien Rops;]

    [Les Epaves version here]

    via benjaminhilts:book-aesthete:Les Fleurs du Mal Baudelaire, Charles. First Edition, First Issue. Paris, Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, 1858.

    FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, without title-page, dark morocco gilt by Charles Meunier

    Via Bonham’s

     
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