The Breaking Wave, Sète, Spring 1857

細節

GUSTAVE LE GRAY (1820-1882)
The Breaking Wave, Sète, Spring 1857
albumen print
facsimile signature stamp on recto; embossed credit stamp on mount
16 3/8 x 12 5/8in. (41.7 x 32.1cm.)

來源

Originally from the collection of William, 2nd Earl of Craven (1809-1866);
Bearne's, Exeter, The Craven Photographic Collection, 6 May 2000, lot 91.

出版

S. Aubenas, Exhibition catalogue, Gustave Le Gray, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, 2002, p.124, pl.144; p.366, fig.131; R. Therond, Une Passion Française, Paris, 1999, pp.55, 305; E.P. Janis, The Photography of Gustave Le Gray, Chicago, 1987, pl.14.

注意事項

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium, which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

拍品專文

This is Le Gray's only known seascape in a vertical format. He focuses the viewer's attention first on the breaking wave of the foreground, then diagonally along the rippled surface to the harbour wall and sailboat, and back along the horizon line. Unlike most of Le Gray's seascapes, this image is produced from a single negative; the underexposed sky gives an appropriately dramatic tone.