Auguste Rodin , Les Fleurs du Mal, Paris, 1940, The Limited Edition Club, 678/1500. Edition based on the unique copy of the original edition of 1857 in "Musée Rodin" in Paris.
Illustrations: 27 drawings.
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) is one of the most important French sculptors of the second half of the 19th century and is considered one of the fathers of modern sculpture. He was born into a modest family in the 5th arrondissement of Paris and died in Meudon on November 17, 1917. His father, Jean-Baptiste, of Norman origin, had settled in Paris in 1830 as an office boy at the police headquarters; his mother, Marie Cheffer, was from Lorraine. Partly due to his severe myopia, he had a mediocre academic career, which left him with a long-standing handicap of poor French. Preferring to doodle in his notebooks, his parents enrolled him free of charge in 1854, at the age of 14, at the École Spéciale de Dessin et de Mathématiques, known as "la petite école," which later became the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs… (see more: Wikipedia )
