REDON, Odilon, illustrator. -- VERHAEREN, Émile (1855-1916). Poémes. 1888. LIMITED EDITION, number 24 of 45 copies on Holland Van Gelder paper. -- Les Soirs. 1888. LIMITED EDITION, number 18 of 45 copies on Holland Van Gelder paper.  -- Flambeaux Noirs. 1891. LIMITED EDITION, number 22 of 45 copies on Holland Van Gelder paper.  All Brussels: Edmond Deman.
REDON, Odilon, illustrator. -- VERHAEREN, Émile (1855-1916). Poémes. 1888. LIMITED EDITION, number 24 of 45 copies on Holland Van Gelder paper. -- Les Soirs. 1888. LIMITED EDITION, number 18 of 45 copies on Holland Van Gelder paper. -- Flambeaux Noirs. 1891. LIMITED EDITION, number 22 of 45 copies on Holland Van Gelder paper. All Brussels: Edmond Deman.

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REDON, Odilon, illustrator. -- VERHAEREN, Émile (1855-1916). Poémes. 1888. LIMITED EDITION, number 24 of 45 copies on Holland Van Gelder paper. -- Les Soirs. 1888. LIMITED EDITION, number 18 of 45 copies on Holland Van Gelder paper. -- Flambeaux Noirs. 1891. LIMITED EDITION, number 22 of 45 copies on Holland Van Gelder paper. All Brussels: Edmond Deman.

Together 3 works in one volume, 4o (242 x 181 mm). Half titles, titles printed in red and black, each with an ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHIC FRONTISPIECE BY REDON. (Lightly spotted, third lithograph dampstained.) Contemporary half cloth (hinges loose). Provenance: Acquired from Florimond Tulkens, 1961.

In 1886, Redon was introduced to Belgian author Jules Destrée by his friend Joris-Karl Huysmans; Destrée then introduced Redon to Emile Verhaeren. Verhaeren, a Belgian poet who wrote in French, was one of the founders of the school of Symbolism, which traces its beginnings to the publication of Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal (1857). Redon became the most significant artist for the Belgian Symbolists, and he regularly contributed works to their salons.

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