✿ Georges CLAIRIN (1843-1919) ✿

'Il mio corpo
è come una cometa che brilla
le mie labbra palpitano
la pelle brucia
abbandono le braccia
mi assolvo
e nel dolore...
ascolto posseduta
l'eterno
il silenzio'

~ Catherine La Rose© ~
Ophelia in the Thistles

 son portrait par Paul Mathey

An Ouled Nail Tribal Dancer

La Promenade

Sarah Bernhardt in the role of Cleopatra

At the Opera

Deux Femmes Ouled

Ophelia

Sarah Bernhardt as the Queen in Ruy Blas, 1879

Harem woman

Portrait de Sarah Bernhardt, 1876 (detail)

The Masked Ball

A Walk in the Wood, 1900

La Deesse Neith

A Lake with Naiads

The distant Princess, 1899

Frou Frou, 1882

Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) in 'Theodora', 1902

Sarah Bernhardt in 'Sainte Therese d'Avila'

The Sultan's Favorites

Le Dompteur de Pidgeons

Entering the Harem

Portrait de Sarah Bernhardt à l'éventail

Sarah Bernardt, 1900

La Grande Vague, ca. 1898

Buste De Femme De Profil, 1899

Elegant Ladies Fishing

On The Balcony

Sarah Bernhardt, 1871

Portrait de Sarah Bernhardt, 1876

Elegant Figures Watching the Regatta

'Non son le rose
che su dolci spine
m'approdano beata
e neanche la diafana luna pelle
che mi fraseggio nell'Eden come una Dea
che danzo eterna la Primavera...'

~ Catherine La Rose© ~
A Bride's Fantasy

'Il mio corpo
è come una cometa che brilla
le mie labbra 

palpitano
la pelle 

brucia
abbandono le braccia
mi assolvo
e nel dolore...
ascolto posseduta

l'eterno 

il silenzio'

~ Catherine La Rose© ~

Ophelia in the Thistles

Clairin, Georges Jules Victor (Paris,1843-Belle-Île-en-Mer,1919) was a student of Picot and of Pils. He enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts in 1861 and began exhibiting at the Salon of 1866. He executed decorative paintings for various public buildings in Paris and in the provinces, but is known primarily for his grand historical compositions, Symbolist themes and for the numerous works he exhibited of and for Sarah Bernhardt. Clairin became the favoured portraitist of the actress, depicting her various roles in almost one hundred paintings, notably that of Ophelia, which Bernhardt brought to the stage in 1886. In 1901 an important exhibition at the Galerie Georges Petit was dedicated to Clairin.