Les Mille nuits et une nuit de Georges Manzana-Pissarro

One Thousand and One Nights, an eternal bestseller, elegantly and sensually illustrated by Georges Manzana-Pissarro, the son of one the masters of Impressionism, Camille Pissarro. An original and graceful edition that brings to light the illustrations by the artist that have been preserved by the family: the dream of the orient, the eroticism of the Roaring Twenties in France, a shimmering universe.

We may never know who wrote them, or how old they are, yet the tales from the The Thousand and One Nights, or the Thousand Nights and One Night as per the translation by Dr. Mardrus, are as fascinating to us as they once were, for centuries, to listeners in Damascus, Cairo or Baghdad, which serve as a backdrop to the tales. Georges Manzana-Pissarro (1871–1961), the son of Camille Pissarro, one of the masters of Impressionism, became so enraptured by this universe that he made it the core theme of his work. For his illustrations, Pissarro took his cue from Dr. Joseph-Charles Mardrus, whose translation was greatly admired in the early twentieth century, as reflected by Proust’s narrator in In Search of Lost Time.