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About this work
Ph
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Jean Baptiste Racine
1677
Lines from Act I, Scene 3 were quoted to accompany
a sketch for the artist's 1969 sculpture
De quel amour (By What Love)
in the exhibition "Dorothea Tanning: Murmurs" at
Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
, organized in collaboration with
Alison Jacques Gallery, London
(May 11 - June 27, 2015). The show explored echoes of myths and legends in Tanning’s work through poetry, with examples of poems that were especially meaningful to the artist.
J. D. McClatchy wrote a
tribute to Dorothea Tanning
for the show and recorded the poems included in the gallery.
View a gallery of images here
and listen to his reading of this poem below.
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In her own words...
De quel amour (By What Love)
(1969)
Sketch for
De quel amour (By What Love)
(1969)