id:			348652
accession number:	2018.211.25
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.211.25
updated:		2023-04-26 11:23:59.487000

Narcisse: Ô mon bien souverain, cher corps, je n’ai que toi!, 1936. Laure Albin Guillot (French, 1879–1962). Fresson print; image: 34 x 26.2 cm (13 3/8 x 10 5/16 in.); paper: 34 x 26.2 cm (13 3/8 x 10 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 2018.211.25

title:				Ô mon bien souverain, cher corps, je n’ai que toi!
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series:				Narcisse
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creation date:			1936
creation date earliest:		1936
creation date latest:		1936
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creditline:			Dudley P. Allen Fund
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culture:	France, 20th century
technique:	Fresson print
department:	Photography
collection:	PH - French 20th Century
type:		Portfolio
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CREATORS

* Laure Albin Guillot (French, 1879–1962)  - artist

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measurements: Image: 34 x 26.2 cm (13 3/8 x 10 5/16 in.); Paper: 34 x 26.2 cm (13 3/8 x 10 5/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Beyond Truth: Photography after the Shutter
	opening date:   2019-02-10T05:00:00
	<i>Beyond Truth: Photography after the Shutter</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-May 26, 2019).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Madame Pierre Paquette
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	Private Collection, Europe
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	Librarie Alain Brieux, Paris, France
	date: c. 2008
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	Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller, Santa Monica, CA
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	Private Collection, United States
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	Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller, Santa Monica, CA and Librarie Alain Brieux, Paris, France
	date: c. 2016
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: September 4, 2018
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fun fact:
The tactile emphasis in this book’s printing and papers echoes the sensuousness appropriate to a love story.

digital description:
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 <em>Fragments de Narcisse</em>, 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<em>.</em>

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Christian Bouqueret, <em>Laure Albin Guillot ou La Volonté d’Art</em>, Paris: Marval, 1996.
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	Jeu de Paume, <em>Laure Albin Guillot, 1879-1962: l’enjeu classique</em>, Paris: Editions de La Martinière, 2013.
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