Les Fleurs du Skull
Carlo Farneti’s illustrations for a 1935 edition of Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal.
From the collection of Richard Sica:
I can’t find much information about Carneti. Art & Popular Culture gives this bio:
Carlo Farneti (1892-1961) was an Italian artist born in Naples who moved to Paris in 1926. He illustrated works by Zola, Poe, and Baudelaire.
Richard Sica tells me Farneti was a prolific illustrator who worked in Paris, and that he did a wonderful series of etchings for a two-volume Poe.
February 5th, 2010 at 7:11 am
Very interesting…and I’d say there was more than a touch of James Ensor in these.