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'L'Esperance' - Oil on Canvas, 73 x 54 cm |
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'îlots, Pontours, Hiver - 2' Oil on Canvas, 77 x 33 cm |
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'îlots, Pontours, Hiver - 1' Oil on Canvas, 46 x 38 cm |
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'îlots et Cormorants, Pontours' - Watercolour, 38 x 28 cm |
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'Reedbeds at Lalinde' - Oil on Panel, 72 x36 cm |
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'Bergerac Waterfront' - Oil on Panel, 46 x 36 cm |
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'Bergerac Waterfront - 2' - Aquarelle, 58 x38 cm |
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'La Bassin, Canale de Lalinde' - Watercolour, 28 x 38 cm |
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'Cingle de Tremolat' - Watercolour. 50 x 25 cm |
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'Tremolat' (detail) - Watercolour & Ink |
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'Le Cingle de Tremolat' - Oil on Canvas. Approx 170 x 90 cm |
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Le Dropt |
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Henry Miller wrote this about the Dordogne :
"A few months before the war broke out I decided to take a long vacation. I had long wanted to visit the valley of the Dordogne, for one thing. So I packed my valise and took the train for Rocamadour where I arrived early one morning about sun up, the moon still gleaming brightly. It was a stroke of genius on my part to make the tour of the Dordogne region before plunging into the bright and hoary world of Greece. Just to glimpse the black, mysterious river at Domme from the beautiful bluff at the edge of the town is something to be grateful for all one's life. To me this river, this country, belong to the poet, Rainer Maria Rilke. It is not French, not Austrian, not European even: it is the country of enchantment which the poets have staked out and which they alone may lay claim to. It is the nearest thing to Paradise this side of Greece. Let us call it the Frenchman's paradise, by way of making a concession. Actually it must have been a paradise for many thousands of years. I believe it must have been so for the Cro-Magnon man, despite the fossilised evidence of the great caves which point to a condition of life rather bewildering and terrifying. I believe that the Cro-Magnon man settled here because he was extremely intelligent and had a highly developed sense of beauty. I believe that in him the religious sense was already highly developed and that it flourished here even if he lived like an animal in the depths of the caves. I believe that this great peaceful region of France will always be a sacred spot for man and that when the cities have killed off the poets this will be the refuge and the cradle of the poets to come. I repeat, it was most important for me to have seen the Dordogne: it gives me hope for the future of the race, for the future of the earth itself. France may one day exist no more, but the Dordogne will live on just as dreams live on and nourish the souls of men." |
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