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Albin-Guillot, Laure. Untitled, 1936. Unbound volume with 14 Fresson prints, Sheet: 34.9 x 27.2 cm (13 3/4 x 10 11/16 in.). Dudley P. Allen Fund, 2018.211.14. Copyrighted.

Untitled

1936

Laure Albin Guillot

Laure Albin Guillot (French, 1879–1962)

Photography

Narcisse: Untitled, 1936. Laure Albin Guillot (French, 1879–1962). Unbound volume with 14 Fresson prints; sheet: 34.9 x 27.2 cm (13 3/4 x 10 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 2018.211.14 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. The tactile emphasis in this book’s printing and papers echoes the sensuousness appropriate to a love story.
Classification
Portfolio
Formatted Medium
Unbound volume with 14 Fresson prints
Dimensions
Sheet: 34.9 x 27.2 cm (13 3/4 x 10 11/16 in.)
Departments
Photography
Accession Number
2018.211.14
Credit Line
Dudley P. Allen Fund
Rights Statement
Copyrighted

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