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Arthur Rimbaud

Arthur Rimbaud

Jacques Villon
French, 1875–1963
1961
An etching by Jacques Villon depicting the poet Arthur Rimbaud, in which the artist uses spare, calligraphic lines to conjure the sitter’s restless, enigmatic presence.
What strikes you is the airy, almost unfinished feeling—Rimbaud’s face and gaze are crisply observed while his body and hands dissolve into energetic, cross‑hatched strokes that make the figure feel both present and insubstantial against the pale sheet.
The print shows how modernist printmakers reworked the traditional portrait—using etching’s linear possibilities to translate literary modernism into a visual, expressive language.
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
plate: 9 5/16 x 7" (23.6 x 17.8 cm); sheet: 19 1/4 x 14 5/8" (48.9 x 37.2 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Peter A. Rübel
Accession
300.1966
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