Creator
Léopold Sédar Senghor
Title
Deux poèmes: Prière de paix: Élégie pour Martin Luther King; lithographies originales de Nicolas Alquin.
Coverage
[Paris]
Publisher
Les Bibliophiles de France
Date
2006
Description
Peggy Brown’s 2018 gift of eight limited-edition books issued to the members of Les Bibliophiles de France between 1989 and 2014 made a sparkling addition to the Grolier Club’s collection of modern livres d’artistes. Founded in 1948, the society commissions fine artists, book designers, and printers to explore themes in French-language poetry and prose. This dynamic lithograph by Belgian sculptor and illustrator Nicolas Alquin (b. 1958) was created in response to the 1979 elegy to Martin Luther King, Jr. written by Senegalese poet Léopold Sédar Senghor, the first African elected to the Académie française.
Source
Gift of Elizabeth A. R. Brown, 2018