“When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everything in me that is bewildered and confused.” – Rainer Maria Rilke French artist Georges Rouault knew how to evoke the Breton coast at sunrise, including a mysterious aura, both through the presence of light and through his choice of a vertical format. His trio of figures, like an apparition, suddenly take on the overtone