![]() ![]() People may interpret differently when reading a book the second time around. Tokiwa brought up the book again (Les Fleurs du Mal) and this is what changed Takao's life around. For highlights of Les Fleurs du mal visit The Met on Google Arts & Culture. Interestingly, after the failed attempt of suicide, Takao's life appeared meaningless for the longest time (until he met Tokiwa). Produced in conjunction with the exhibition Rodin at The Met, on view at The Met Fifth Avenue, September 16, 2017, through January 15, 2018. He also included sketches made after sculptural compositions, such as Orpheus and Eurydice and The Thinker, enjoying the multiplicity of symbolic resonances present in his work. His illustrations echo drawings made during the germination of that project in the early 1880s, including three examples of his "black drawings," so-called for the darkness of their content and ink wash. ![]() In 1918, the Société des Amis du Livre Moderne (Society of Friends of the Modern Book) published 200 facsimile copies, of which this is number 74.īaudelaire's poetry had inspired Rodin during the conception of his major monument The Gates of Hell. In 1887, publisher and bibliophile Paul Gallimard asked Auguste Rodin to illustrate his personal copy of the rare 1857 edition of Charles Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil (now in the Musée Rodin, Paris). ![]()
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