Page 83 - B-ALL#19
P. 83
OSCAR WILDE, THE ABSOLUTE SASSY
September 28, 2016 to January 15, 2017 LE PETIT PALAIS
Beauty forEernity
Micha Christos
Le Petit Palais presents the first major French exhibition devoted to Oscar Wilde, famous literary man, esthete, poet , Dandy born in Ireland, October 16, 1854 and who died in Paris in 1900.
The life and work of this ardent Francophile and perfect Francophone are so retraced through more than 200 pieces bringing together exceptional and unpublished documents for some. Oscar Wilde wove many and fruitful links with representatives of the art scene and the Parisian intellectual circles during his stay in Paris.
Mallarme, Verlaine, Victor Hugo and Gide frequented this brilliant free spirit known for his words at the soft scent of provocation and at the spiritual impertinence. Although uncontested darling of fashionable London, his difference was not to the taste of rigid and moralistic laws of the England of Queen Victoria. Oscar Wilde was imprisoned for homosexuality in 1895 and sentenced to forced labor for two years. His life ended in poverty in Paris, struck down by meningitis.
B-ALL
