Kees van Dongen

Kees van Dongen

1877 - 1968

Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire

signed in pencil Kees van Dongen and numbered 255 (on the justification page)

the complete portfolio comprising one etching, five engravings, and nine engravings with aquatint printed in colors on Arches wove paper, with the original red linen slipcase

sheets approx: 14¾ by 11 in. (37.5 by 28.1 cm.)

overall: 15⅞ by 12 by 2⅝ in. (40.3 by 30.4 by 6.6 cm.)

Executed in 1966-69; this portfolio is number 255 from the edition of 280, published by Pierre de Tartas au Centre Artistique et Culturel du Moulin de Vauboyen à Bièvre dans l'Essonne.