![]() ![]() ![]() In Brazil, his work is generally classified as being Pre-Modernist. All of these illustrations are the strength of his work. Vandamme & Cie in a French translation by HD Davray. After the author's approval in 1905, who considers the work superior to that of Warwick Goble, Corrêa's work is published in a luxury edition printed in 500 copies in 1906 by L. Wells, to whom he personally requested authorization. In 1903 he executed a series of 132 notable illustrations, 32 of which were inserted in the book War of the Worlds, by H. Wells's novel "The War of the Worlds".Ĭorrêa went to live in Europe at the age of 16, shortly after the proclamation of the Republic of Brazil in 1892, taken by the royalist Barão de Oliveira Castro, his stepfather. ![]() He is best known for his illustrations of a French translation of H. He was born in Rio de Janeiro, and died in Brussels. Henrique Alvim Corréa was a Brazilian illustrator of military and science fiction books. ![]()
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