{"product_id":"hokusai-great-wave-off-kanagawa-giclee-print","title":"Katsushika Hokusai – Under the Wave off Kanagawa (The Great Wave), 1830–33 | Giclée Print","description":"\u003cp\u003eA wave the height of a house is about to fall. Under its claw three fast boats of oarsmen bend flat to the hulls, and far away, small and calm, stands Mount Fuji. The mountain is the subject; the wave is only weather. That reversal is why the sheet has never stopped working.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHokusai was around seventy when he made it, the first sheet of \u003cem\u003eThirty-six Views of Mount Fuji\u003c\/em\u003e. The deep blue was new — Prussian blue, freshly imported and cheap enough for a commercial print run — and he used it for water, sky and outline alike. Impressions were pulled by the thousand and sold for the price of a bowl of noodles. Fewer than a hundred early ones are known today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat this is.\u003c\/strong\u003e A giclée reproduction of the Metropolitan Museum's impression, printed with pigment inks. It is not a woodblock print and is not sold as one — a woodblock print is pulled by hand from cut cherry blocks, and the good impressions are in museums.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eScale\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eOriginal: 24.4 × 35.7 cm \/ 9.6 × 14.1 in — Metropolitan Museum of Art\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e50 × 40 cm \/ 19.7 × 15.7 in\u003c\/strong\u003e — Original size, 1:1\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e70 × 50 cm \/ 27.6 × 19.7 in\u003c\/strong\u003e — Enlarged, 1.7× original\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt original size the sheet is exactly what a buyer in Edo held in two hands. Enlarged, the wave takes a wall and the woodgrain, the register marks and the flecks in the paper of 1830 become visible — a different picture, and a deliberate one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe sheet is reproduced whole, including the title cartouche and Hokusai's signature. Nothing is cropped away but the museum's mount.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProvenance\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nKatsushika Hokusai (1760–1849), \u003cem\u003eUnder the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura)\u003c\/em\u003e, also known as \u003cem\u003eThe Great Wave\u003c\/em\u003e, from the series \u003cem\u003eThirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)\u003c\/em\u003e, ca. 1830–32; woodblock print, ink and colour on paper, 24.4 × 35.7 cm.\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1914, Acc. No. JP10.\u003cbr\u003e\nPublic domain. The Museum publishes its digitisation under Open Access (CC0).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe print\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nGiclée on 200 gsm FSC-certified fine art paper, twelve pigment inks. White border, optical centre. The paper tone of the original is kept, not corrected. Unframed. Shipped rolled in a tube.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Museartis","offers":[{"title":"50 × 40 cm \/ 19.7 × 15.7 in — Original size, 1:1","offer_id":65756452520285,"sku":"MUS-010-5040","price":59.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true},{"title":"70 × 50 cm \/ 27.6 × 19.7 in — Enlarged, 1.6× original","offer_id":65756458516829,"sku":"MUS-010-7050","price":89.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1102\/7139\/8237\/files\/museartis-hokusai-great-wave-plate-v2.jpg?v=1788190974","url":"https:\/\/museartis.com\/products\/hokusai-great-wave-off-kanagawa-giclee-print","provider":"Museartis","version":"1.0","type":"link"}