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About the Artwork

Petit air

1894

Maurice Denis

1870-1943

French

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Lithograph

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Prints

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard F. Walker

75.129.5

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Inscribed, extract of the sonnet "Petit air" by Stéphane Mallarmé: Quelconque une solitude | Sans le cygne ni le quai | Mire sa désuétude | Au regard que j'abdiquai || Ici de la gloriole | Haute à ne la pas toucher | Dont maint ciel se baricle | Avec les ors de coucher || Mais langoureusement longe | Comme de blanc linge ôté | Tel fugace oiseau si plonge | Exultatrice à côté || Dans l'onde toi devenue | Ta jubilation nue Inscribed, below sonnet: [monogram of Stéphane Mallarmé]

Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. Bernard F. Walker (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA);
1975-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Maurice Denis, Petit air, 1894, lithograph. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard F. Walker, 75.129.5.

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