The Fisherman and his Soul

Oscar Wilde's "The Fisherman and his Soul" (1891), employed the mermaid myth as an allegory of the supremacy of "heart over soul", The story of a young man who loses his soul in order to win his mermaid. Each year the soul returns siren-like to, to tempt it's master back.  On the third attempt it wins and both are reunited, but having lived without a heart the soul has become evil and the fisherman not only gains a worthless soul but loses his love.

55  x 102 x 19 inches

500 lbs.

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