Edouard Goerg , Les Fleurs du Mal, Paris, 1948, Marcel Sautier.
Original lithographs on each page.
É douard Goerg (1893-1963), French painter and engraver. Long marked by a harsh and sarcastic expressionism, his art softened after 1940 (paintings of "flower girls"). He produced an important body of work as an engraver (etching, lithography) and illustrator. Édouard Goerg was born in Australia in 1893. He left Sydney in his early youth and dedicated himself to painting from a very young age. A soldier during the First World War, his painting was strongly influenced by this experience for the next twenty years, during which his style linked him to the Surrealist school (this early period of his work is now recognized and highly valued). After the Second World War, he became the French representative of expressionism with his famous flower girls, reminiscent of the world of Egon Schiele or Oskar Kokochka. Edouard Goerg, Knight of the Legion of Honour, died in 1969, leaving behind a body of work that was then only recognized by critics (© Natacha Pelletier) ( Wikipedia )
