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Bjørn Båsen, Little Fool

NOK 7.900

2011

Bjørn Båsen
​Little fool, 2011
Litography
100 x 69 cm
Edition of 50
Price: NOK 7.900

Description

Words written below from F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel "The Great Gatsby":
Let me tell you what they said when she was born. She was less than an hour old and Tom was ... God knows where. I woke up out of the other with an utterly abandoned feeling, and I asked the nurse if it was a boy or a girl. She told me it was a girl. And so I turned my head away and wept. "All Right," I said "I am glad it is a girl, and I hope she'll be a little fool". That's the best thing a girl can be in this world. A beautiful little fool...