Art Of The Day Weekly
#441 - from 22 September 2016 to 28 September 2016
A passion for Félicien Rops
LE CREUSOT - HIs undressed, blindfolded courtesan (simply wearing stockings, gloves, black high heels and a light belt), guided by a pig, is his best known work. Next to this Pornokratès, many other works by Félicien Rops (1833-1898) - with his carrousel of daring women, of devils, of skulls, of crosses - contributed to blow up the bourgeois and religious rules of his native Wallonie. The nearly 100 works presented at L’art, scène nationale, are a unique collection gathered with passion over half a century by a Belgian couple. They remind us that Félicien Rops, a friend of Baudelaire's, was a respected engraver (nearly 1000 engravings listed), a remarkable drawer as well as a painter of melancholic landscapes (Ostende, Blankenberge, the bay of Klampenborg).
• Vous avez dit Félicien Rops ?!, at the Arc, 24 September to 16 December 2016