Something beautiful: fishing boats

Departing Boats (Nidden), Max Pechstein, 1920

In the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin, I loved this painting that has so much energy and movement. The primitive figures made me want to illustrate a children's book about fourteen brothers who try to catch a magical fish.

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