Louis Marcoussis (French, born Poland, 1878-1941)
based on a poem by Guillaume Apollinaire (French, born Italy, 1880-1918)
Moonlight, plate 30 from Alcools
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Louis Marcoussis (French, born Poland, 1878-1941)
based on a poem by Guillaume Apollinaire (French, born Italy, 1880-1918)1934
Moonlight, plate 30 from Alcools
Louis Marcoussis (French, born Poland, 1878-1941) based on a poem by Guillaume Apollinaire (French, born Italy, 1880-1918) →etchingprint
Date
1934
Medium
Etching in black on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 14.8 × 9.2 cm (5 7/8 × 3 5/8 in.); Plate: 15.5 × 9 cm (6 1/8 × 3 9/16 in.); Sheet: 45.2 × 31.8 cm (17 13/16 × 12 9/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Bequest of Alice Roullier
This is Apollinaire’s first published poem and reads:Moon dribbling honey upon lips of lunatics
Orchards and country towns tonight grow greedy
Stars resemble bees
Of a luminous liquid that drips from trellises
Each honey beam oozes from heaven
Taking its own sweet time
Hidden I glimpse the sweet adventure
But I fear the fiery sting of that bee Arcturus
He has flung me deceiving beams
And culled his moon honey from the compass rose of the winds
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