About this artwork
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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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Louis Marcoussis
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Title
- Moonlight, plate 30 from Alcools
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Origin
- France
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Date
- 1934
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Medium
- Etching in black on off-white wove paper
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Dimensions
- 148 × 92 mm (image); 155 × 90 mm (plate); 452 × 318 mm (sheet)
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Credit Line
- Bequest of Alice Roullier
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Reference Number
- 1964.379
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Copyright
- © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
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