The Ninth Wave, 1850

Ivan Aivazovsky

Oil on canvas · 221 x 332 cm

Survivors cling to a broken mast as a towering, sunlit wave looms over them, capturing the sublime terror and beauty of the sea.

Survivors cling to a mast as a towering wave rears in the dawn light, sea and sky ablaze with gold. Aivazovsky, the great Romantic painter of the sea, makes the ocean glow with both terror and beauty in his most celebrated canvas.

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