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Le Jardin

Louis Marcoussis

Artwork Details

Le Jardin
1930
Louis Marcoussis
etching on paper
10 x 7 3/4 in. (26.04 x 19.84 cm);10 ¼ in x 7 4/5 in (26.04 cm x 19.84 cm);6 ⅞ in x 5 3/10 in (17.46 cm x 13.49 cm);19 ¼ in x 14 ¼ in (48.89 cm x 36.2 cm)
Gift of Mr. Ferdinand Roten
1960/1.106

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Louis Marcoussis was a close friend of Juan Gris, with whom he shared a penchant for disciplined, severe compositions and a somewhat melancholy temperament. Marcoussis' Cubist prints have about them a mysterious, brooding quality, a poetic mood. The artist frequented literary circles and a good number of his prints were, as here, produced as book illustrations. This etching is one of ten made by Marcoussis for a 1930 edition of Gérard de Nerval's nover "Aurélia". First published in 1855, this strange and dreamlike book was an important source of inspiration for Surrealist writers.

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