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Sketch for De quel amour (By What Love)

1969
Ink on paper
5 7/8 x 2 3/8 in.

 

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)
 

In her own words...