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Mammals of the Deep - Whale Screen
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AURELIEN RAYNAUD (B.1970), french
Mammals of the Deep - Whale Screen
View 1: inscribed, signed and dated lower left Ils quittrent la terre en qute de sanctuaire. Leurs queues s'effilrent comme des ailes. Ils purent ainsi voler travers les ocans. Aurelien 99 (They left the ground in search of sanctuary. Their tails spread like wings. How they flew throught the oceans.) View 2: inscribed lower left N'ayant pas d'ennemi dans la mer, la baleine se refuse croire qu'on l'attaque. On la laisse driver, ointe de graisse et de sang. (Since it had no enemy in the sea, the whale refuses to believe that it is attacked. One lets it derive, full of grease and of blood.) View 3: inscribed, signed and dated lower left De grandes creatures disparaissent. Sans elles, notre monde rtrcie. Aurelien 99 (Large creatures disappear. Without them, our world narrows.)
oil on canvas
50 x 76 in. (127.6 x 193 cm.) closed, 58 x 157 in. (147.3 x 398.8 cm.) extended (including the frame)
Mammals of the Deep - Whale Screen
View 1: inscribed, signed and dated lower left Ils quittrent la terre en qute de sanctuaire. Leurs queues s'effilrent comme des ailes. Ils purent ainsi voler travers les ocans. Aurelien 99 (They left the ground in search of sanctuary. Their tails spread like wings. How they flew throught the oceans.) View 2: inscribed lower left N'ayant pas d'ennemi dans la mer, la baleine se refuse croire qu'on l'attaque. On la laisse driver, ointe de graisse et de sang. (Since it had no enemy in the sea, the whale refuses to believe that it is attacked. One lets it derive, full of grease and of blood.) View 3: inscribed, signed and dated lower left De grandes creatures disparaissent. Sans elles, notre monde rtrcie. Aurelien 99 (Large creatures disappear. Without them, our world narrows.)
oil on canvas
50 x 76 in. (127.6 x 193 cm.) closed, 58 x 157 in. (147.3 x 398.8 cm.) extended (including the frame)