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Odilon Redon, Different Peoples Inhabit the Countries of the Ocean, plate 23 of 24, 1896, lithograph in black with retouching in India ink on ivory China paper laid down on ivory wove paper, 308 x 230 mm (image); 310 x 234 mm (chine); 458 x 349 mm (sheet), The Stickney Collection, 1920, via The Art Institute of Chicago
“All that is told of the sea has a fabulous sound to an inhabitant of the land, and all its products have a certain fabulous quality, as if they belonged to another planet, from seaweed to a sailor’s yarn, or a fish story. In this element the animal and vegetable kingdoms meet and are strangely mingled.”
“I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.”
“Never a ship sails out of the bay
But carries my heart as a stowaway.”
Vincent Van Gogh, Fishing Boats on the Beach at Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, 1888
