The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of October 12, 2026

A vertically oriented print on off-white, mottled paper is primarily blank. Near the bottom center, a single line of muted olive-green cursive reads, "La nuit vient sur ma chair lui souffler que je l'aime". In the bottom right corner, the number "13" is printed in the same color. The edges of the sheet are slightly darkened, framing the composition.

Untitled

1936

Laure Albin Guillot

(French, 1879–1962)
France, 20th century
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
Location: Not on view

Did You Know?

The tactile emphasis in this book’s printing and papers echoes the sensuousness appropriate to a love story.

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 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.
  • Madame Pierre Paquette
    Private Collection, Europe
    c. 2008
    Librarie Alain Brieux, Paris, France
    c. 2016
    Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller, Santa Monica, CA
    Private Collection, United States
    c. 2016
    Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller, Santa Monica, CA and Librarie Alain Brieux, Paris, France
    September 4, 2018
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Christian Bouqueret, Laure Albin Guillot ou La Volonté d’Art, Paris: Marval, 1996.
    Jeu de Paume, Laure Albin Guillot, 1879-1962: l’enjeu classique, Paris: Editions de La Martinière, 2013.
  • {{cite web|title=Untitled|url=false|author=Laure Albin Guillot|year=1936|access-date=12 October 2026|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2018.211.14