Les Fleurs du Mal

Tokyo: [Yoshihara], 1975.
First Edition. Signed by Illustrator

40.5cm x 32cm. [3] leaves, 10 etchings on Fukui paper each housed in an individual folder with tissue guard. Cloth solander box, gilt lettering, original cardboard box.

Ten etchings by the Japanese painter Tatsuhiko Yokoo (1928-2015), each responding to a different poem from Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal. One of 15 numbered copies on Fukui paper reserved for the artist and collaborators (from a total edition of 50). Each plate signed and numbered in pencil by the artist. Accompanied by a title leaf with a list of plates in French and Japanese, an artist’s preface with an excerpt from the corresponding poem for each plate on its verso, and a printed plate with a portrait and Japanese text after Baudelaire’s ‘Spleen’. A colophon leaf with the limitation statement in French and Japanese is mounted to the verso of the box lid.

Minor wear to outer cardboard box. Solander and plates in Fine condition. Fine Condition.

AU$1,000