Another illustrated Baudelaire. Two editions that I might have featured in this series have already been posted in quality scans at 50 Watts: the 1935 Fleurs du Mal by Carlo Farnetti, and a 1947 edition by Beresford Egan, the latter being a good example of a well-matched artist and author.
The illustrations here are woodcuts once again, the artist being Victor Delhez (1902–1985), a Belgian who moved to South America. The 1950 Fleurs du Mal which featured these plates contained 20 illustrations in all but these are the only ones online. I hadn’t come across Delhez before but he was a prodigiously talented artist, as can be seen from the print collection at William P. Carl Fine Prints.
Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
• The illustrators archive
Previously on { feuilleton }
• Raphaël Drouart’s Fleurs du Mal
• Tony George-Roux’s Fleurs du Mal
• Percy Walter Wolff’s Die Vorhölle
• The art of Mario Laboccetta
• Carlos Schwabe’s Fleurs du Mal