"If I could find anything blacker than black, I'd use it."
— J. M. W. Turner

January 1, 1970

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his reply after the prominent English marine painter had complained, that Turner in his painting 'Peace - Burial at Sea' - he painted after the burial of his artist-friend David Wilkie - had painted the sails in the steamer as black as possible