Edy Legrand , Les Fleurs du Mal, Paris, 1930, Editions du Trianon, 156/620.
Illustr.: 9 full page watercolors “au pochoir” (colored by Keller).
Edy Legrand (1892-1970) whose real name was Édouard Leon Louis Warschawsky, was born in Bordeaux in 1892 and died in Bonnieux in 1970. He was a French painter. He began his career in advertising and literary illustration. Later, his work established his reputation as a painter. One of his oil paintings, L'Ahouache (98 cm x 128 cm), sold for over two hundred thousand euros at Christie's in 2008. He participated in the first World's Fair of Prints and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1932, representing France. Exhibited alongside Picasso, Matisse, and Derain, he was the only French artist to receive an honorable mention. He subsequently settled in Rabat, Morocco, where he lived for approximately twenty years and became very close to Jacques Majorelle. In Morocco, Edy Legrand was fascinated by the elements of life he discovered in the ceaseless movement of the crowds and in the way color vibrated through the interplay of light on costumes and scenery. ( Wikipedia )
