Edmond Malassis
# Edmond Malassis

Edmond Malassis (14 December 1874 – 3 September 1944) was a French painter and illustrator.

## Life

Edmond Malassis was born in the 10th arrondissement of Paris on 14 December 1874. He was a pupil of Gustave Moreau, and became a watercolourist.

Malassis worked primarily in the first half of the 20th century. A prolific book illustrator, he did not do his own engravings. In 1935, he exhibited at the galerie de l'Écale in the Faubourg Saint-Honoré, Paris.

He died in his home in the 7th arrondissement of Paris on 3 September 1944, aged sixty-nine.

## Illustrated works

* Edmond Haraucourt, La Légende des sexes. Poèmes hystériques (Brussels, 1882)
* Balzac, La Belle Impéria (Paris: Louis Conard, 1903)
* Théodore de Banville, Gringoire, comedy in one act, in prose (Paris: Louis Conard, 1904)
* André Couvreur, Caresco surhomme, ou le voyage en Eucrasie, conte humain (Paris: Plon, 1904)
* Balzac, Les joyeuzetés du roy Loys le Unzième (Paris: Louis Conard, 1907)
* Erckmann-Chatrian, L'Ami Fritz (Paris: Louis Conard, 1909)
* Pierre Louÿs, Aphrodite, Mœurs antiques (Paris: M. H. Couderc de Saint-Chamant, 1910)
   * The original copy was illustrated by Claude-Charles Bourgonnier and Adolphe Giraldon. Malassis illustrated two copies.
* Anatole France, Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard (Paris: Carteret, 1921)
* Guy de Maupassant, La Morte (Paris, 1922)
   * A unique copy illustrated with original watercolours.
* Voltaire, Candide (Paris: Carteret, 1922)
* Charles Baudelaire, Amoenitates Belgicae, epigrams published by François Montel (Paris: Éditions Excelsior, 1925)
* Stendhal, L'Abbesse de Castro (Paris: Javal et Bourdeaux, 1930)
   * Copper-engraved by Delzers and Feltesse.
* La Fontaine, Fables choisies (Paris: Louis Connard, 1930–1933)
   * Illustrated by Fred Money, woodcuts in colours by André and Paul Baudier, decorative compositions by Pierre Laprade.
* Louis XI (attribution), Les Cent Nouvelles (Paris: P. Javal and Bourdeaux, 1931)
   * Originally engraved on copper by Lorrain.
* Brantôme, Les Vies des dames galantes (Paris: Le Vasseur et Cie, 1935)
* Théodore de Banville, Florise (Paris: A. and F. Ferroud, 1936)
* Richard Wagner, La Tétralogie, translated by Albert Pauphilet (Paris: Piazza, 1941)
* Joseph Bédier (adaptation), Le Roman de Tristan et Iseut (Paris: Piazza, 1942)
   * Frontispiece and ornamentation.
