BRITTANY. 1996.

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1996
11.3 x 8.7cm, 4pp card with a drawing of women in a harbour Jo Hincks after M Denis printed black on brown.

BRITTANY
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The poem suggests that nothing much has changed in these Breton fishing villages, life is a repeating refrain. Finlay also quotes Caroline Boyle-Taylor on this “The painters felt that the peasants’ lives had not changes since medieval times”. Maurice Denis – the source for the original image – was one of the Symbolists and Les Navis who often documented small communities on canvas especially fishermen. VG+.