J.M.W. Turner

Ulysses deriding Polyphemus

US$ 654.00

Ulysses’ ship pulls away in a blaze of sunrise while the blinded Cyclops looms as a barely-distinguishable mass of shadow on the cliffs above, the whole canvas dissolving into light and vapour. Turner uses the myth mainly as an excuse to paint the sun, pushing colour toward pure atmosphere decades before the Impressionists. Contemporary critics complained they could not make out what was happening.

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Artist

J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851) began as a topographical watercolourist and ended painting canvases so dissolved into light and weather that his contemporaries accused him of leaving them unfinished. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from the age of fifteen and travelled constantly through Britain and Europe. He left his enormous studio holdings to the British nation, and Ruskin’s advocacy secured his reputation for the following century.

Material Archival canvas
Frame Supplied rolled, unframed
Print Fine-art print, printed to order
Size 52 × 34 inches
Delivery 2–3 weeks
Certificate of Authenticity Included, emailed on delivery
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