Manet - Oysters

Édouard Manet - Oysters, 1862

Oysters call in mind refinement and also something free and wild. Léon-Paul Fargue famously wrote, j'adore les huîtres: on a l'impression d'embrasser la mer sur la bouche. Everybody knows this quote, seemingly nobody knows which of his books it comes from.

Here is another quote from Léon-Paul Fargue, en art, il faut que la mathématique se mette aux ordres des fantômes.

(Washington DC National Gallery of Art)

(Manet)