Edouard Dujardin
Date of birth: 1861
Date of death: 1949
Category: editor
Identity:
Edouard Dujardin was a novelist, dramatist and poet.
Life:
He was a leading figure in Symbolist literary circles and his works are full of mystical symbolism. His novel Les lauriers sont coupés (1888), with its undiluted interior dialogue became a model for such writers as James Joyce and Virginia Woolf. He was also proprietor of the Revue Indépendante (edited by Félix Fénéon) to which his friend Stéphane Mallarmé contributed theatrical notes.
Whistler drew a figure of a dancer on the cover of a November 1886 edition of the Revue Indépendante (see Dancer m1211), possibly as a cover illustration. In 1888 he agreed to allow it to publish four of his pastels, Tillie: Study in Pink and Mauve m0370, Note in flesh-colour gold - The Golden Blossom m0402, Standing nude m0955 and Parasol; red note m0957 (#05179).
Bibliography:
Edouard Dujardin Papers, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas.
