The art of Mario Laboccetta

Tales of Hoffmann (1932).

Another great illustrator about whom information is scant; I need better reference books, the web is often no use at all. Monsieur Thombeau posted the cover to Laboccetta's edition of Les Fleurs du Mal (below) which had me looking around for other work by the artist. VTS has pages from a 1932 edition of Tales of Hoffmann while more of the Baudelaire pictures can be found on various bookdealers' sites. As to the artist, we're told he was an Italian living in Paris, and this French site has a small list of his illustrated editions. It's frustrating to see that Les Paradis Artificiels is among these; what did he make of Baudelaire's opium visions?

Tales of Hoffmann (1932).

Tales of Hoffmann (1932).

Tales of Hoffmann (1932).

Tales of Hoffmann (1932).

Tales of Hoffmann (1932).

Les Fleurs du Mal (1933).

Les Fleurs du Mal (1933).

Les Fleurs du Mal (1933).

Les Fleurs du Mal (1933).

Les Fleurs du Mal (1933).

Poster design (1948).

Elsewhere on { feuilleton }

• The illustrators archive

Previously on { feuilleton }

• The Tale of Giulietta

• Carlos Schwabe's Fleurs du Mal