{"id":2404,"date":"2025-11-11T14:35:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T13:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jerusalempress.co.uk\/?page_id=2404"},"modified":"2026-01-16T12:16:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T11:16:19","slug":"felicien-rops-the-arwas-collection","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jerusalempress.co.uk\/?page_id=2404","title":{"rendered":"F\u00e9licien Rops \u2013 the Arwas Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Catalogue & Collected Essays by Victor Arwas
<\/mark><\/strong>+ Rops & Austin Osman Spare by Dr William Wallace<\/mark><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

We are pleased to announce our most extravagant title yet for exclusive pre-orders.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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Introducing a lavish new survey of the transgressive Belgian Symbolist and his decadent, blasphemous, erotic, <\/strong>supernatural graphics. This will be the most extensive publication on Rops in English.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Richly-illustrated <\/strong>throughout with over 900 items in the collection, from unpublished proof-copies of prints, to watercolours and drawings, to notorious illustrations for Les \u00c9paves<\/em> by Baudelaire (1868), The Supreme Vice<\/em> by P\u00e9ladan (1884), A Heart Lost<\/em> by Peladan (1888), Po\u00e9sies<\/em> by Mallarm\u00e9, The Lyre<\/em> (1895), Chair<\/em> (1896) by Verlaine, Parallelism<\/em> (1896), Les Diaboliques<\/em> by Barbey d’Aurevilly (1896), and of course his major Symbolist series, the Sataniques. <\/em>Featuring the uniquely completist Arwas collection, this is a veritable catalogue raisonn\u00e9 of this intoxicating artist. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The extensive Afterword<\/strong> \u2018Selective Affinities<\/em>\u2019 by Dr Wallace, takes an in-depth look at Rops\u2019 influence upon Spare\u2019s early graphic style and obsessive themes, taking specific note of the double crucifixion rendered by both artists (notably, Spare\u2019s version was also in the Arwas collection).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published to coincide with the major exhibition<\/strong> of the Arwas collection at the Rops Mus\u00e9e, Namur, April\u2013September 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contents include <\/strong>Three authoritative biographical, art historical essays by Victor Arwas, focusing upon the Symbolist milieu and Rops\u2019 involvement with P\u00e9ladan, Baudelaire, Mallarm\u00e9. \u2022 Themed art sections: Erotica, Symbolism, Les Diaboliques, Les Sataniques, Observations of City Life, frontispieces \/ ex-libris. Catalogue of publications and prints. \u2022 Your name included on the subscribers\u2019 list<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DELUXE EDITION Strict limitation of 100 copies<\/strong> 
215 x 260 mm, pp.330. Litho, sewn, extensive 200 colour-plate section, frontispiece, signature page, hand-numbered on colophon. Hand-marbled endpapers, tail-bands, foil-blocked and quarter-bound in leather, cloth slipcased, and tipped-in on front with sink-plate of a Rops design. Illustrated dust-jacket. Over 600 black & white images. Features exclusive inserts, prints, postcards<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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