id: 349077 accession number: 2018.212.13 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.212.13 updated: 2023-04-26 11:23:59.598000 Micrographie Décorative: Irional, 1931. Laure Albin Guillot (French, 1879–1962). Photogravure; image: 27.4 x 21.4 cm (10 13/16 x 8 7/16 in.); paper: 42.5 x 36 cm (16 3/4 x 14 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 2018.212.13 title: Irional title in original language: series: Micrographie Décorative series in original language: creation date: 1931 creation date earliest: 1931 creation date latest: 1931 current location: creditline: Dudley P. Allen Fund copyright: --- culture: France, 20th century technique: photogravure department: Photography collection: PH - French 20th Century type: Bound Volume find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Laure Albin Guillot (French, 1879–1962) - artist --- measurements: Image: 27.4 x 21.4 cm (10 13/16 x 8 7/16 in.); Paper: 42.5 x 36 cm (16 3/4 x 14 3/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Imprinted in black type on recto: “PLANCHE XIII” translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Collection of Thérèse Bonney, Paris, France date: footnotes: citations: Chloé et Denis Ozanne Rare Books, Paris, France date: footnotes: citations: the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: September 4, 2018 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: Laure Albin Guillot was one of the first artists in France to explore the decorative use of photography by blending art and science. Married to a specialist in microscopy, she began making photographs based on her husband's slides seen through the microscope. She published twenty of these abstract images as this artist’s book and later used related images on wallpaper, silk, and book bindings intended for luxurious interiors. These seemingly abstract designs are greatly magnified images of natural specimens, including cross-sections of rhinoceros’ horn. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Christian Bouqueret, Laure Albin Guillot ou La Volonté d’Art, Paris: Marval, 1996. page number: url: Jeu de Paume, Laure Albin Guillot, 1879-1962: l’enjeu classique, Paris: Editions de La Martinière, 2013. page number: url: --- IMAGES