Mario Laboccetta

2 albums/29 artworks – The pseudonym Marilac was used by Italian artists Mario Laboccetta (1899 – 1988) for who I was unable to find a proper bio in English. So I tried to translate from Italian. He was born in Naples and became famous in Paris. During the 1920/1930’s he worked as illustrator for magazines, and especially for some editions of Les Fleurs du Mal (1933). He became famous for his illustrations for Baudelaire in Les Paradis artificiels (1933) and Contes d’Hofmann (1932).His art was being considered nouveau symbolic, like artists Carlo Ferneti or Alberto Martini but inlike them Labocetta folded the dream. His excessive use of color refert o the surreal delirium. The first books illustrated by Labocetta are…

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