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Narcisse

La nuit vient sur ma chair lui souffler que je l'aime

1936
(French, 1879–1962)
France, 20th century
Fresson print
Image: 33.7 x 26 cm (13 1/4 x 10 1/4 in.); Paper: 33.7 x 26 cm (13 1/4 x 10 1/4 in.)
Dudley P. Allen Fund 2018.211.15
Location: not on view
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The tactile emphasis in this book’s printing and papers echoes the sensuousness appropriate to a love story.

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Laure Albin Guillot wanted to produce a book that illustrated contemporary literature with photographs of equal quality and was itself a work of art. She chose to illustrate Paul Valéry’s poem Fragments de Narcisse, 1919–22, based on the myth of a beautiful young hunter who falls in love with his own reflection in a pond and is driven to suicide by the futility of his unrequited love.
La nuit vient sur ma chair lui souffler que je l'aime

La nuit vient sur ma chair lui souffler que je l'aime

1936

Laure Albin Guillot

(French, 1879–1962)
France, 20th century

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