Jacob Epstein
Epstein was commissioned in 1936 to illustrate these poems and he subsequently considered these drawings to be among his most accomplished works, 'I believe only six or seven drawings were wanted, but when I started reading the text with a view to illustrating it, I found the subject so absorbing I made sixty drawings. I believe Mr Macy, who originally asked me to make the drawings, was somewhat taken aback at this over measure ... In these drawings I had tried to represent the spiritual, religious and ecstatic sense of the poems with their tragic and sombre shades, avoiding for the most part those cheap sensual interpretations in illustrations so commonly found in volumes of the Fleurs du Mal.'
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