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Rough sea, Belle-Île
1900
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
The Joseph Brown Collection. Presented through the NGV Foundation by Dr Joseph Brown AO OBE, Honorary Life Benefactor, 2004
- Gallery location
- Gallery 20
Level 3, NGV Australia
About this work
Rough sea, Belle-Île belongs to a group of works in which John Russell evokes a stormy sea at Belle-Île, off the coast of Brittany. In this work Russell almost evokes a sense of explosion, with the boiling sea and stormy sky fusing in the kind of swirling vortex composition that we associate with J. M. W. Turner’s late works, which Russell would have known from his student years in London. Russell’s technique, however, is entirely Impressionist, with strong, pure colours – blues, mauves, pinks and greens – rapidly applied, giving an abstracting all-over texture and luminosity to the picture surface.
Artwork Details
The Joseph Brown Collection. Presented through the NGV Foundation by Dr Joseph Brown AO OBE, Honorary Life Benefactor, 2004
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation
Level 3, NGV Australia