Suzanne Ballivet , Les Fleurs du Mal, Paris-Nice, Imprimatur, 1954, ?? /850.
Illustr.: 49 lithographs in b/w.
Suzanne Ballivet (1904-1985) was a French painter and illustrator. She was born in Paris, the only child of Jules and Laurentine Ballivet. She attended secondary school in Montpellier and then enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts there. Her fellow students included Renée Altier, Camille Descossy, Georges Dezeuze, Albert Dubout, and Germaine Richier. In 1925, she married Camille Descossy and moved to Paris, where she worked as a fashion illustrator and exhibited at the International Colonial Exposition. After her divorce in 1941, she returned to Paris to live with Albert Dubout and exhibited her drawings at the magazine Humour 41. Her first illustrations for art publications began in 1943. In 1946, she returned to Paris, where she met Colette, Sacha Guitry, Marcel Pagnol, and also the cartoonists Bellus, Ben, and Peynet, with whom she collaborated on several humor magazines. She remarried in 1968 to the caricaturist, poster artist, and illustrator Albert Dubout in Saint-Aunès, where she owned a family property. For the last ten years of her life, she retired to Saint-Aunès, stopped drawing and painting, and devoted her time to reading. She died in Saint-Aunès on June 15, 1985. ( Wikipedia )
