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Ships in a Storm

Peder Balke Norwegian

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This palm-size painting betrays Balke’s singular intensity of vision. Executed quickly and in an idiom hardly anticipated by pictures from the 1840s exhibited here, it nevertheless testifies to the grasp of the North Cape on Balke’s imagination decades after he first saw it in 1832. The forces of nature have become one with the artist’s gesture.

Ships in a Storm, Peder Balke (Norwegian, Helgøya, Nes 1804–1887 Oslo (Kristiania)), Oil on wood

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