Edy Legrand , Les fleurs du mal, Casablanca, 1950, Maurice Robert, 218/1200.
Illustr.: a "lot" of illustrations in b/w.
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 one to receive an honorable mention. He later settled in Rabat, Morocco. ( Wikipedia )
