Bennequin
Les Lesbiennes
40 pages
22 x 29 cm
Sewn paperback, on crystal paper
Language : French
Published : 2016
Born in 1981, Jérémie Bennequin began studying at Palais Universitaire at Strasbourg pour les achever à Paris, where he now lives and works. Known for his work regarding Proust – the scrub In Search of Lost Time – or of Mallarmé – on the poem Un coup de Dés Jamais n’abolira le Hasard – this time, focusing on Baudelaire's trip to Mauritius in 1841.
Artist book on Olin paper, signed and numbered from 1 to 120, formatted in 4°.
The work printed by Launay Press and bound by l'atelier Houdart in Paris for Éditions Dilecta.
The work includes poems written during his trip to Mauritius, which are reworked by Jérémie Bennequin. It also includes a charcoal drawing of a figure meant to be the "Creole Lady" from Baudelaire's work (Stérile Volupté).
This top edition of this title exists on Vergé paper.