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*Félicien ROPS by Erastène Ramiro. by Félicien ROPS |
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| Erastène Ramiro. Félicien ROPS. Etudes sur quelques Artistes originaux. Paris, Pellet, Floury, 1905, size 10.25x8.50 in. 215 pages + engraved portrait + 23 photo-engravings hors-texte, binding contemporary green half morocco, orig. wrapper bound in, interior very good..FIRST EDITION. He devoted himself principally to illustrating books, notably for the French Symbolist and Decadent writers including Baudelaire, Mallarmé, and Huysmans. "Many of Rops's etchings are erotic or pornographic in tone and depict an imaginary underworld or subjects of social decadence. Despite his peculiarities, Rops was a printmaker of brilliant technique and original content whose handling of dry point (etching directly on the plate) marks him as one of the masters of the medium. He was also one of the first modern etchers to revive the neglected medium of soft-ground etching, in which the etching ground is melted into and mixed with tallow, producing the effect of lines drawn with a soft pencil or chalk. Rops often combined soft-ground etching a technique practiced by few artists of his day with mezzotint or aquatint, and sometimes added hand-coloring to his plates. His etchings were popular, and influenced many younger artists, including Symbolists such as Edvard Munch and Max Klinger |