drawing by Shona Nunan

Les Saintes Maries de la Mer

Shona Nunan

2018

pastel on paper

45 x 64 cm

€3,000

catalogue number SND48

 

The stories from the south of France say that the biblical Mary Magdalene,

along with the two Saints Mary Salome and Mary of Clopas,

arrived miraculously on the shore in the south of France

after being set adrift by boat from Alexandria in Egypt.