Louis Berthomé Saint-André , Les Fleurs du Mal, Paris, 1947, La Bonne Compagnie. 219/2000.
Illustr.: 6 lithographs (cover included) in color.
Louis Berthomm é Saint-André (1905-1977) was a French painter. He spent his early childhood in Saintes and began his architectural studies with Georges Naud, head of historical monuments for the Charente-Maritime region. In 1921, he studied under Cormon at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and later in the studio of Jean-Paul Laurens. He won the Abd-el-Tif Prize in 1925. He left Algeria in 1928, returning in 1931. He is considered the most "modernist" of the Abd-el-Tif painters of his generation. Even today, he remains highly regarded by bibliophiles for his illustrations of works by Verlaine, Apollinaire, Baudelaire, Diderot, Voltaire, Musset, and others. Like André Hambourg, he joined the Resistance and contributed to the newspaper Vaincre. He traveled to sub-Saharan Africa in 1970, to Senegal, as an artistic advisor. He died suddenly at his home in Paris on October 1, 1977. ( Wikipedia )
