Arthur Rimbaud / Zao Wou-ki - Illuminations - 1966

Illuminations, by Arthur Rimbaud

Well complete with the 8 watercolors of Zao Wou-Ki.

This work presents a unique encounter between visionary poetry and pictorial abstraction. Rimbaud's collection, composed of prose poems and dazzling texts, explores inner landscapes made of ruptures, flashes of color, metamorphoses, and sensory impulses. The writing, dense and fragmented, aims less to describe than to provoke an experience, liberated from the traditional frameworks of language.

Zao Wou-Ki's works accompany this approach through compositions where gesture, color, and movement suggest rather than depict. His inks and lithographs establish an open visual space, resonating with the intensity and indeterminacy of the text. Far from literally illustrating the poems, the artist extends their energy and breath. This edition thus creates a dialogue between two forms of expression that share the same quest for freedom, making Illuminations a convergence point between poetry and contemporary painting.

1966, 22 x 25 cm, 134 pages. Sheets with a dust jacket. A small stain on the front free endpaper and another on the half-title page (less than one centimeter in both cases).