Moonlight, plate 30 from Alcools
Louis Marcoussis
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.)
- Genre
- etching
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
printprints and drawingetchingpaper (fiber product)
About
This is Apollinaire’s first published poem and reads:Moon dribbling honey upon lips of lunaticsOrchards and country towns tonight grow greedyStars resemble beesOf a luminous liquid that drips from trellisesEach honey beam oozes from heavenTaking its own sweet timeHidden I glimpse the sweet adventureBut I fear the fiery sting of that bee ArcturusHe has flung me deceiving beamsAnd culled his moon honey from the compass rose of the winds
