Charles BAUDELAIRE.

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Charles BAUDELAIRE.
Salon de 1845. Paris, Jules Labitte (Imprimerie Dondey-Dupré), 1845. In-12 of 72 pp. and (1) f.: half-brown calf, smooth spine, red morocco title page (old binding). First edition, printed in an edition of 500 copies. It was published under the name of Baudelaire Dufaÿs: that of the father together with that of the mother. According to his friend Champfleury, the author was determined to destroy all the remaining copies, "no doubt for fear of certain relations of ideas with Heine and Stendhal". The publication did not receive any response. First book published: a poet in search of "Modernity". Following in the footsteps of Diderot, Stendhal and Théophile Gautier, Baudelaire (1821-1867) expresses his ideas on art at the Salons held in the Louvre. Of the hundred and two artists mentioned, his big man is Delacroix, then much discussed: "He is not yet of the Academy, but he is morally part of it." Good copy. (Pichois, Dictionnaire Baudelaire, pp. 427-428.- Clouzot, p. 43: "Very rare and much sought after."- Bibliothèque nationale, Charles Baudelaire, 1957, p. 23: "The Salon of 1845 is composed, materially, like all the Salons of the time, that is to say that it studies, by classifying them by genre, all the paintings exhibited; but its novelty comes from the fact that it is written to praise Delacroix on the one hand, and on the other hand, to look for the painter likely to better express the era, the painter of Modernity.)
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