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Dream Hokusai

Hokusai, The Great Wave, c.1831
Image: Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, online database

It’s hard to think of a more famous image than Hokusai’s The Great Wave. Since its introduction to Europe in the mid-19th century, it’s starred in blockbuster exhibitions, commanded million-dollar sums at auction and inspired artists from Van Gogh to Debussy. It even has its own emoji.

Despite such celebrity, it’s in fact quite a terrifying image. Battling for survival against a towering wave with claw-like crest are fishing boats heading away from Edo (Tokyo). For many, it’s the perfect representation of man within nature. Hokusai was in his 70s when he created this image, which would go on to make both his name and his fortune.

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Photograph: Courtesy of Gavin Turk’s studio and Ben Brown Fine Arts
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The Wick - No. 299, 29th April 2020 by David Hockney
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The Wick - Sheila Hicks (American, b. 1934 in Hastings, Nebraska)
The Principal Wife, 1968
Bundled and wrapped linen, rayon and acrylic yarns; Lucite bar
Length: 254 cm (100 inches)
Gift of in memory of Mary Josephine Cutting Blair 2005.42
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