$1,250.00
Acrylic on wood with silver leaf and gloss varnish. Also: bamboo stick, leather cord and steel fixings.
This artwork depicts the fisherman from Hemingway’s novel and the big blue marlin which is no less the hero of the piece.
“He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream, and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.”
That’s the first sentence from the novel and has been carefully written, with a fine brush, within the waves of the sea in this artwork.
Overall dimensions: 68.5 x 46 x 5 cm / 27″ x 18″ x 2″ – see also Additional Information tab below.
This is the brilliant and beautiful first paragraph from Hemingway’s book. I have incorporated the first sentence in the artwork itself.
“He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream, and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish. In the first forty days a boy had been with him. But after forty days without a fish the boy’s parents had told him that the old man was now definitely and finally salao, which is the worst form of unlucky, and the boy had gone at their orders in another boat which caught three good fish the first week. It made the boy sad to see the old man come in each day with his skiff empty and he always went down to help him carry either the coiled lines or the gaff and harpoon and the sail that was furled around the mast. The sail was patched with flour sacks and, furled, it looked like the flag of permanent defeat.”
| Weight | 3.5 kg |
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| Dimensions | 68.5 × 46 × 5 cm |
