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Squall on the Horizon
- 1872-73
- Oil on canvas
- 53.6 x 72.4 cm
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Gustave Courbet intensively created most of his seascapes in a period of nine years from 1865 to 1873. During this period, the painter traveled to the beautiful Normandy coast facing the English Channel to paint the sceneries, like a series of paintings, including calm sea, raging sea, boats on the beach, and the cliffs of Étretat which is known for the peculiar landscape of precipices protruded into the sea. Especially during his stay in Étretat in 1869, he created the most number of the seascapes, of which more than 50 pieces are confirmed even only in his catalogue raisonné.
Courbet lost both the French parliamentary election and the Paris municipal election in 1871. Subsequently, he was put in the prison of Sainte-Pélagie at the time of the Commune de Paris, but underwent surgery due to illness. Until his exile to Switzerland in 1873, Courbet spent some time in his native town Ornans, but his health condition stayed poor. During such a difficult time, an ideal motif in painting for Courbet was the rough stormy sea surging forward with great force that he had seen in Normandy.
According to a friend’s letter to Courbet, it is speculated that this work is a piece from a series of the seascapes that Courbet created between 1872 and 1873, when he stayed in Ornans. A local town near the Swiss border, Ornans had no connections with the sea at all, but the intensive executions of the paintings in Étretat in 1869 might have helped Courbet to recreate seascapes for the subsequent several years. A mass of surge with full of movement was a Courbet’s favorite subject matter. Richly conveying a massive feeling, he depicts the power of nature hidden within the waves using a palette knife. Along with his renowned “deer” series, this “wave” series can be considered as a synonym for Courbet’s painting.
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ARTIST
Gustave Courbet
(1819-1877)
Exhibit history
- Sep 17, 2022 (Sat)～Nov 20, 2022 (Sun)
400 Years of Western Paintings - Masterpieces from Tokyo Fuji Art Museum - Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design (Toyama, Japan) - Jul 16, 2022 (Sat)～Sep 4, 2022 (Sun)
Masterpieces from Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art (Kumamoto, Japan) - Mar 19, 2022 (Sat)～May 8, 2022 (Sun)
Masterpieces of European Paintings From Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Collection Saga Prefectural Art Museum (Saga, Japan) - Oct 23, 2021 (Sat)～Dec 26, 2021 (Sun)
The 400 Years of Western Painting: Masterpieces From Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts (Tochigi, Japan) - Jul 9, 2021 (Fri)～Aug 29, 2021 (Sun)
400 Years of European Paintings: Masterpieces From Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art (Okayama, Japan) - Apr 10, 2021 (Sat)～Jun 13, 2021 (Sun)
Courbet and the Sea: Eyes on Nature in the 19th Century Shiodome Museum (Tokyo, Japan) - Dec 15, 2020 (Tue)～Jan 31, 2021 (Sun)
How to Read Western Paintings: Masterpieces from Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Art Museum (Okinawa, Japan) - Sep 12, 2020 (Sat)～Nov 3, 2020 (Tue)
400 Years of Western Paintings: Masterpieces from Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Miyazaki Prefectural Art Museum (Miyazaki, Japan) - Jul 22, 2020 (Wed)～Sep 6, 2020 (Sun)
400 Years of Western Paintings: Masterpieces from Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Oita Prefectural Art Museum (Oita, Japan) - Feb 20, 2020 (Thu)～Apr 12, 2020 (Sun)
How to Read Western Paintings: Masterpieces from Tokyo Fuji Art Museum The Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki (Ibaraki, Japan) - Nov 2, 2019 (Sat)～Dec 22, 2019 (Sun)
“Rendez-vous” through Arts―East Meets West― Kuboso Memorial Museum of Arts, Izumi (Osaka, Japan) - Sep 3, 2019 (Tue)～Oct 22, 2019 (Tue)
Masterpieces of European Paintings From Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Collection Yamaguchi Prefectural Art Museum (Yamaguchi, Japan) - Jan 12, 2019 (Sat)～May 4, 2019 (Sat)
500 Years of Western Paintings: Collection of Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Shanghai PowerLong Museum (Shanghai, China) - Oct 23, 2018 (Tue)～Dec 23, 2018 (Sun)
500 Years of Western Paintings: Collection of Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Tsinghua University Art Museum (Beijing, China) - Apr 29, 2017 (Sat)～Jun 25, 2017 (Sun)
The Collection of the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum: East and West Encounters Niihama City Museum of Art (Ehime, Japan) - Jul 9, 2016 (Sat)～Aug 28, 2016 (Sun)
300 years of Western Painting from Baroque, Rococo to École de Paris Nagano Prefectural Shinano Art Museum (Nagano, Japan) - Jun 27, 2015 (Sat)～Aug 30, 2015 (Sun)
Feast of beauty: 300 years of Western Painting From Baroque, Rococo to Ecole de Paris Yawatahama Citizen Gallery (Ehime, Japan) - Apr 29, 2015 (Wed)～Jun 21, 2015 (Sun)
Feast of beauty: 300 years of Western Painting From Baroque, Rococo to Ecole de Paris The Tokushima Modern Art Museum (Tokushima, Japan) - Mar 11, 2014 (Tue)～May 11, 2014 (Sun)
Impressionists at the Waterside—Depicting Urban Resorts: Paris, the Seine, and Normandy The Museum of Kyoto (Kyoto, Japan) - Jan 15, 2014 (Wed)～Mar 2, 2014 (Sun)
Impressionists at the Waterside—Depicting Urban Resorts: Paris, the Seine, and Normandy Fukuoka City Museum (Fukuoka, Japan) - Oct 24, 2009 (Sat)～Dec 20, 2009 (Sun)
The Intersection of Paintings and Photographs Nagoya City Art Museum (Aichi, Japan) - Aug 1, 2009 (Sat)～Sep 27, 2009 (Sun)
The Intersection of Paintings and Photographs Matsumoto City Museum of Art (Nagano, Japan) - Jun 6, 2009 (Sat)～Jul 20, 2009 (Mon)
The Intersection of Paintings and Photographs Hiroshima Museum of Art (Hiroshima, Japan) - Apr 4, 2009 (Sat)～May 24, 2009 (Sun)
The Intersection of Paintings and Photographs Sapporo Art Museum (Hokkaido, Japan) - Jan 30, 2009 (Fri)～Mar 25, 2009 (Wed)
The Intersection of Paintings and Photographs Hokkaido Obihiro Museum of Art (Hokkaido, Japan) - Jul 14, 2007 (Sat)～Nov 25, 2007 (Sun)
Impressionists and Its Sources: Monet, Renoir, and Barbizon Masters Musee d'art Mercian KARUIZAWA (Nagano, Japan) - Apr 22, 2005 (Fri)～May 29, 2005 (Sun)
Impressionists and Great Masters of Western Paintings Yatsushiro Municipal Museum (Kumamoto, Japan) - Aug 1, 2003 (Fri)～Aug 31, 2003 (Sun)
A Great Masters of Impressionist and Modern Arts Iwate Prefectural Hall (Iwate, Japan) - Apr 18, 2003 (Fri)～May 25, 2003 (Sun)
The Great Masters of Art Fukuoka Art Museum (Fukuoka, Japan) - Nov 8, 2002 (Fri)～Nov 24, 2002 (Sun)
Great Masters of Modern Paintings Nagasaki Prefectural Museum (Nagasaki, Japan) - Oct 5, 2002 (Sat)～Nov 4, 2002 (Mon)
Art of the West & Art of Japan Exhibition: Monet, Renoir, Cezanne... Ikeno Taiga, Tani Buncho, and Others Shimane Art Museum (Shimane, Japan) - Sep 7, 2002 (Sat)～Sep 29, 2002 (Sun)
Four Centuries of Occidental Paintings from the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Collection SOGO Museum of Art (Kanagawa, Japan) - Jul 20, 2002 (Sat)～Sep 1, 2002 (Sun)
The Great Masters of Art Hida Takayama Museum of Art (Gifu, Japan) - Jun 7, 2002 (Fri)～Jun 23, 2002 (Sun)
Modern Western Oils and Engravings from the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Collection Fukui City Art Museum (Fukui, Japan) - May 11, 2002 (Sat)～Jun 2, 2002 (Sun)
Modern Western Painting Kagoshima Prefectural Museum of Culture Reimeikan (Kagoshima, Japan) - Apr 13, 2002 (Sat)～May 6, 2002 (Mon)
Modern Western Oils and Engravings from the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Collection The Urasoe Art Museum (Okinawa, Japan) - Oct 1, 2000 (Sun)～Dec 3, 2000 (Sun)
Masterpieces of Western Paintings from the Renaissance to the 20th Century National Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall (Taipei, Taiwan) - Oct 14, 1997 (Tue)～Nov 30, 1997 (Sun)
Masterpieces of Western Oil Painting from the TFAM Collection Hong Kong Museum of Art (Hong Kong, China) - Jun 14, 1997 (Sat)～Jul 7, 1997 (Mon)
400 Years of Art in the East and West—From the Collection of Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art (Ishikawa, Japan) - Oct 16, 1992 (Fri)～Nov 5, 1992 (Thu)
Masterpieces of European Oil Painting: The Paintings in 20th Century from the Renaissance to Impressionism China Art Gallery (Beijing, China) - Nov 3, 1990 (Sat)～Dec 2, 1990 (Sun)
Masterpieces of European Oil Painting Ho-Am Art Museum (Yongin-gun, Kyunggi-do, South Korea) - Sep 22, 1990 (Sat)～Oct 21, 1990 (Sun)
Masterpieces of European Oil Painting Ho-Am Gallery (Seoul, South Korea)
Origin of collections
- Provenance:
Collection de M.Mazaroz et Ribalier, acquired from the artist (sale, Paris Hôtel Drouot, May 13-14, 1890,lot 15, sold for FF980)
Galerie Robert Schmit, Paris
Hirshl &Adler Galleries, New York
James C. Brady ,New York, 1965
Acquired by the present owner in1969
Exhibited:
New York, Hirshl & Adler Galleries, Selections from the Collection of Hirshl & Adler Galleries, 1964-1965, no.55, illustrated in the exhibition catalogue
New York, Hirshl & Adler Galleries, Retrospective of a Gallery ; Twenty Years, 1973, no.28, illustrated in the exhibition catalogue
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