Fleurs du Mal

Fleurs du Mal ("Flowers of Evil") is a volume of French poetry by Charles Baudelaire. First published in 1857, the subject matter of these poems deals with themes relating to decadence and eroticism. In this context, the sultry atmosphere found in Vargas' work is compelling. Vargas created a fine sense of time and place when he created this.

Oritinally painted in the 1920s, published in 1980.