Kees Van DONGEN
THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND NIGHTS AND ONE NIGHT
Gallimard, 1955. 3 octavo volumes in cardboard boxes from the publisher after the model by Paul Bonet, blue-gray slipcase with stars, complete with rhodoids.
80 watercolors by Van Dongen. Literal and complete translation by J. C. Mardrus.
The Thousand and One Nights were thought by anonymous people more than ten centuries ago, transiting through this immense Orient from India to Persia to Egypt, amalgamating all genres: tales, poems, prayers, history powers, vices, virtues, love and eroticism.
The Nights fascinate and enlighten us because Scheherazade mobilizes all her powers to survive, her intelligence as well as her sensuality.
It is a story of records and fantasies that has inspired all genres of art, in all eras, from Goethe to Walt Disney, to this little-known vision of Van Dongen which highlights what the fauve has become in front of this world and this work.
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