![]() ![]() "Édouard-Henri Avril: The Master of 19th Century Pornography". ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Paul Eduard Henry Avril – Biography and Offers – Buy and Sell Retrieved 01 August 2012".The Société des Bibliophiles Contemporaines (1889–1894) consisted of 160 people from literary circles, including Avril. Avril worked with Octave Uzanne, who after leaving the Société des Amis des Livres, which he found too conservative and too concerned with the reissue of old works, started two new bibliographic societies. Prolific erotica collector Henry Spencer Ashbee commissioned Avril to design a bookplate for him. Avril might be best known for his sapphic, or lesbian, illustrations. Ĭlassicizing works illustrated by Avril include Oeuvres d’Horace (1887), Une nuit de Cléopâtre ( fr) (1894), Daphnis et Chloé (1898), and Les sonnets luxurieux de l’Aretin (1904). He illustrated such works as Gustave Flaubert's Salammbô, Gautier's Le Roi Caundale, Jean Baptiste Louvet de Couvray's Adventures of the Chevalier de Faublas, Mario Uchard's Mon Oncle Barbassou (scenes in a harem), Jules Michelet's The Madam, Hector France's Musk, Hashish and Blood, the writings of Pietro Aretino, and the anonymous lesbian novel Gamiani. The book's edition illustrated by Avril includes Les charmes de Fanny exposés that is one of his better known pictures. Another important work illustrated by Avril was John Cleland's Fanny Hill (also known as Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure), which was a significant and controversial publication of its time as it was the first novel to bring erotica to English literature. Worksīookplate designed by Avril for erotica collector Henry Spencer AshbeeĪvril's major work was designs for De Figuris Veneris: A Manual of Classical Erotica by the German scholar Friedrich Karl Forberg. Īvril died at Le Raincy in Metropolitan France in 1928. Because of the obscurity of Avril and his works, it is difficult to assess the real impact that his art might have had on culture. Erotica of that time received very limited prints and sometimes were limited to only 100 or so copies, or were sold only within exclusive circles of collectors. These books were typically sold in small editions on a subscription basis, organised by collectors. However, his reputation as a commercial illustrator of novels was established before he began illustrating the more underground erotic literature. His reputation was soon established and he received many commissions to illustrate both major authors and the so-called "galante literature" of the day, a form of erotica. Having been commissioned to illustrate Théophile Gautier's novel Fortunio, he adopted the pseudonym "Paul Avril". He worked for the illustrated newsmagazine Le Monde illustré in 1882. From 1874 to 1878 he was at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Avril studied art in various Paris salons. His pseudonym can lead to a confusion with his brother, who was named Paul-Victor Avril, and was also an artist and worked as an engraver. īiographical material of his life is scarce due to obscene nature of his work, and because he worked under a pseudonym of "Paul Avril". The injuries resulted in retirement from his military career on 23 January 1872. He was awarded with the Legion of Honour on for injuries sustained during the war. Avril himself fought and was wounded in Franco-Prussian War before starting his studies in art. His father was a colonel of the gendarmerie. Les charmes de Fanny exposés (plate VIII) from Fanny Hill is one of the most famous works of AvrilĪvril was born in Algiers. ![]()
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