• Baudelaire diptych: Harmonie du soir and Stillness No. 3, framed side by side, window shadows
  • Harmonie du soir (Evening Harmony), 20x28 in print, framed, window shadows
  • Stillness No. 3, 20x28 in print, framed, window shadows
  • Harmonie du soir (Evening Harmony), the print alone, thick matte eco-friendly paper
  • Stillness No. 3, the print alone, thick matte eco-friendly paper
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Baudelaire Diptych Wall Art: Harmonie du soir & Stillness No. 3

Baudelaire Diptych Wall Art: Harmonie du soir & Stillness No. 3

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  • Designed in France
  • Eco-friendly FSC-certified paper
  • Average delivery: 3 to 5 business days

Harmonie du soir and Stillness No. 3: Baudelaire's poem in the text of the 1857 first edition, and an ink blue that sinks into night. Two 20x28 in (50x70 cm) art prints, made to hang side by side.

Why pair Harmonie du soir with Stillness No. 3?

The poem captures the hour when daylight leaves, the sky sad and beautiful, the sun drowned in its own blood. Stillness No. 3 shows the moment after: a lilac sky, then a deep blue that spreads across the sheet and darkens to black. On one side the words of evening, on the other its color. The cream paper of the poem and the lilac of the painting echo each other, which is what holds the pair together.

What is Baudelaire's Harmonie du soir?

Harmonie du soir (Evening Harmony) is a poem from Les Fleurs du mal, published in 1857 in the section Spleen et Idéal as number XLIII. Baudelaire borrows the form of the pantoum, from Malay poetry: the second and fourth lines of each stanza return as the first and third of the next, on only two rhymes. Scents, sounds and a violin turn like a waltz until the last line. The print carries the poem in the original French.

Why the text of the 1857 edition?

The print reproduces the poem exactly as it was printed in the first edition, punctuation and dashes included, laid out like a page of the book: the title of the collection at the top, a double rule around the text, Baudelaire's name and the year at the foot.

What is Stillness No. 3?

An abstract work created exclusively by the Heure d'été studio: a lilac sky above a mass of blue with ink-like edges, sinking into midnight blue. It is printed full bleed, so the blue fills the whole sheet.

Where should you hang this diptych?

Two 20-inch-wide prints hung 2 to 3 inches apart span about 42 inches: above a loveseat, a console, a desk or a full-size headboard. Midnight blue and cream go with linen, dark wood and velvet, in a bedroom or a library.

Is this diptych a good gift?

Yes, for a Baudelaire reader, a French teacher or a poetry lover: for Christmas, a housewarming or a birthday. A poem and a color already matched, ready to frame.

Details

  • 2 art prints, 20x28 in (50x70 cm), portrait, thick matte eco-friendly 170 gsm paper, FSC certified
  • Frames not included: 20x28 in is a standard frame size
  • Printed and shipped from a studio near you: most orders arrive in 3 to 5 business days.

Each work is also sold on its own: Harmonie du soir and Stillness No. 3. See also the abstract art triptych, all Charles Baudelaire poems, our abstract art prints and all diptychs.

Posters sold individually

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Close-up of the grain of our thick eco-friendly matte 170 gsm paper

Heure d'été Editions

Beautiful words deserve beautiful paper

These verses are set to be hung: a chosen typeface, measured margins, white space worked around the text. The paper, an uncoated matte 170 gsm, stays slightly fibrous: it reads like the page of a book.

There is a quiet pleasure in living with French literature in the original. The poem keeps the language it was written in, and with it the sound the writer chose, which no translation quite carries over. On an English-speaking wall it stops being decoration and becomes something with a little cachet: a piece of France you can read on your way past, every morning.

  • Matte paper, 170 gsm
  • Eco-friendly, FSC certified
  • Printed close to you

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