The Ninth Wave
A museum-exhibition poster of Ivan Aivazovsky's The Ninth Wave — The Ninth Wave — survivors clinging to a mast beneath a towering wave and a blazing sunrise — shown whole and uncropped beneath gallery typography. The Sea and The Sublime, styled as a blockbuster exhibition print.
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About this work
- Artist
- Ivan Aivazovsky (1817–1900)
- Year
- 1850
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 221 × 332 cm
- Collection
- State Russian Museum, St Petersburg
- Movement
- Romanticism
A handful of survivors cling to the broken mast of a wrecked ship as a huge wave, lit from behind by the rising sun, gathers over them in a sea of green and gold. The title refers to the sailors' belief that waves come in cycles and the ninth is the largest and most dangerous. Aivazovsky painted the canvas in 1850, at thirty-three, already court painter to the Russian navy and the most famous marine artist in Europe; he worked from memory in the studio rather than from nature, and the warm light breaking through the storm is his characteristic promise of rescue. The painting was bought by Nicholas I and passed to the Russian Museum in St Petersburg when it was founded in 1897. It is the best known of his roughly six thousand pictures.
This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.
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The Madten promise
A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
