De quel amour (By What Love)
1969
Tweed, metal, wool, chain, and plush
68 1/2 x 17 1/2 x 23 1/4 in.
Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Ariane, ma soeur, de quel amour blessée
Vous mourûtes aux bords où vous fûtes laissée!
Ariadne, my sister, wounded by what love,
You died on the shore where you were abandoned.
– Jean Baptiste Racine, from Phèdra, Act I, Scene 3 (1677)
