Maisons Closes – Nicole Canet, Galerie Au Bonheur du Jour, 2021

A dense visual history of brothels and their representations from 1860 to 1946. Moving across paintings, photographs and drawings, this 480-page volume reconstructs the closed world of regulated prostitution in France through 327 illustrations and archival material. Published in a numbered edition of 800 copies, with texts by Florent Paudeleux and Nicole Canet, it combines scholarly precision with the eye of a collector, mapping interiors, rituals and coded economies before their legal disappearance in 1946.

Technical Sheet
Title: Maisons Closes
Artist / Author: Nicole Canet
Date: 2021
Edition: Limited edition of 800 numbered copies
Medium / Materials: Hardcover book
Dimensions (cm): 21 × 27 cm
Pages: 480 pages, 327 illustrations
Language: French (English translation included)
Publisher / Editor: Galerie Au Bonheur du Jour
ISBN: 979-10-93837-08-6
Condition: Very good