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Sadak in Search of the Waters of Oblivion

Sadak in Search of the Waters of Oblivion

John Martin - 1812

€65,95 EUR
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Sadak in Search of the Waters of Oblivion is one of John Martin's great feats of narrative imagination—drawn not from scripture, but from a wildly popular Orientalist fantasy novel of the early 19th century. The story comes from James Ridley's Tales of the Genii (1764), where Sadak endures a series of impossible trials to save his beloved. Martin seized on the most punishing moment: Sadak, reduced to a crawling figure, clings to a ledge before the roaring cascade of the "Waters of Oblivion," whose very touch erases memory. The landscape swallows him. Vast cliffs, glowing like heated metal, rise into a storm of smoke and light. The scale feels geological, almost cosmic—Martin's trademark way of making the human struggle look both heroic and terrifyingly small.

This painting is Martin's voice at full force: the lone figure dwarfed by a world that is both sublime and hostile, the tension between perseverance and annihilation, the suggestion that spiritual trials are played out across landscapes as impossible as inner ones.

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8×10" 20×25 cm
8×12" 20×30 cm
11×14" 28×36 cm
12×16" 30×40 cm
12×18" 30×46 cm
10×20" 25×51 cm
16×20" 41×51 cm
12×24" 30×61 cm
16×24" 41×61 cm
18×24" 46×61 cm
20×28" 51×71 cm
20×30" 51×76 cm
24×30" 61×76 cm
24×32" 61×81 cm
24×36" 61×91 cm
16×32" 41×81 cm
20×40" 51×102 cm
30×40" 76×102 cm
24×48" 61×122 cm
26×40" 66×102 cm
32×48" 81×122 cm
30×60" 76×152 cm
40×55" 102×140 cm
40×60" 102×152 cm

All sizes are approximate. Minor variations may occur during production.

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Our gallery wrapped canvas is framed with a wooden frame and ready to hang out of the box with hanging hardware pre-installed.

*Specially coated with poly-cot canvas for the highest durability and best color vibrancy. Archival grade canvas.
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