ROPS FELICIEN 1833 - 1898 (1988 catalog)

National Museum in Warsaw 1988, 2000 copies p. 127, 22.5 x 22.5cm, booklet binding, very good.condition.

The catalog is a Polish version of the publication Felicien Rops 1833-1898. Centre Culturel de la Communaute francaise Wallonie-Bruxelles "Le Botanique'' et Musees royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Bruxelles, ed Lebeer Hossmann et Centre international pour l'Etude du 19 siecle 1985, published in connection with the exhibition At the National Museum in Warsaw: April-May 1988. The catalog contains 8 color reproductions and over 140 black-and-white reproductions and is divided into three main parts: 1.Painting, 2.Drawing, 3.Graphics

Belgian artist associated with Symbolism and the Parisian Fin-de-Siecle. He was a painter, illustrator, caricaturist and printmaker (he mainly created etchings and aquatints). He is now best known as a creator of prints and drawings as illustrations for his contemporary erotic and occult literature, although he also created oil paintings (landscapes, genre scenes).