If I could find anything blacker than black, I'd use it.
classic quote by J.M.W. Turner (1842)
Added by Dan Costinaş
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1 Dan Costinaş said on 21 October 2013: |
| (*) «Peace - Burial at Sea», exhibited in 1842: The painting is a memorial to Turner's friend Sir David Wilkie who died on board of the «Oriental» on the way back from the Middle East; he was buried at sea off Gibraltar. Turner's picture was done in friendly rivalry with George Jones, who did a drawing of the burial as seen on deck. Jones reported that Clarkson Stanfield objected to the darkness of the sails; 'If I could find anything blacker than black, I'd use it', replied Turner. |