![]() ![]() In 1889, Khnopff made his first contacts with England, where he would stay and exhibit regularly in the future. Khnopff continued to design illustrations for the works of Péladan, most notably for Femmes honnêtes (1888) and Le Panthée (1892). The vehement reaction of “La Caron” on this occasion made a scandal in the Belgian and Parisian press and would help to establish Khnopff’s name as an artist. Khnopff accepted this commission but destroyed the work later because the famous soprano Rose Caron was offended by the imaginary portrait of Leonora d’Este (a character in Péladan’s Le Vice suprême) that Khnopff had designed to adorn the cover and in which Caron thought to recognize her own face. Péladan asked Khnopff to design the cover for his new novel Le Vice suprême. In 1885, he met the French writer Joséphin Péladan, the future grandmaster of the Rosicrucian “Ordre de la Rose + Croix”. ![]() Khnopff achieved widespread acclaim during his lifetime for his moody, dreamlike paintings, as well as his numerous commissioned portraits, designs for costumes and sets for the theater and opera, photography, sculpture, book illustrations, and writings. ![]() In this beautifully illustrated book, Michel Draguet, an internationally recognized authority on fin-de-siècle art, offers an enlightening examination of the life and art of Belgian Symbolist painter Fernand Khnopff (1858–1921). Pin-Up & Adult –You must be 18 or older. ![]()
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