| P. 720 We should also point out ....a standing nude with delimited contours by Pierre Girieud - Reproduction of the Ginette nude
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In an album with an extremely happy presentation, the Librairie de France publishes twelve large lithographs by Ni. Pierre Girieud who has accomplished the miracle of summarizing in twelve pages the grace and the tragedy, the tenderness and the fury of love.
The qualities of harmony, clarity, flexibility and vigor that Ni. Rock
Girieud shows in his painting appear entirely in these lithographs for which he chose a period, a setting, characters, prestigious symbols.
In order to delight our eyes, in order to enchant our spirit and to excite our heart, he evokes, on the shores of this sea from which Aphrodite was born, he resurrects under the
the most indulgent sky, in the midst of the most radiant landscapes in the world,
Daphnis and Chloe,
Cupid and Psyche,
Orpheus and Eurydice,
Perseus and Andromeda,
Hercules and Omphale,
Paris and Helen,
Pan and Syrinx,
Pygmalion and Galatea,
Jason and Medea
Odysseus and Penelope,
Theseus and Ariadne
Pyramus and Thisbe
naive love, divine love, occult love, delivering love, chaining love, august love, whimsical love, animating love, vindictive love, returning love, inconstant love, love that never ages. All the fun and all
anguish, all legend and all life. All the happiness that the burning thrill raises and all that it bends, all the beauty that the sacred breath alternately and perpetually invents and consumes.
With equal science and sensitivity, and with a singular power of suggestion, Mr. Pierre Girieud offers us what art and poetry, what reality and dreams have produced that is most pathetic and most charming.
Reproduction of Cupid and Psyche
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