Breaking Waves, September Tide

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Breaking Waves, September Tide

Louis Auguste LepèreLinkedCulture matchlcp-54b1beac860d

Date
1901
Medium
Woodcut from three blocks in water-based colors on cream laid paper
Culture
France
Department
Prints and Drawings
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID
11311

Louis-Auguste Lepére began his career as a commercial wood engraver, but in 1885 he decided to begin making his own original woodcuts. Moved by Japanese prints exhibited at the 1888 Exposition Internationale de Blanc et Noir and the 1889 Exposition Universelle, Lepére experimented with the color woodcut process. Breaking Waves pays homage to the ocean imagery popular in the islands of Japan and integrates a diagonally recessed shoreline with a horizon line just above the center elements that find a counterpart in Utagawa Hiroshige's Hamamatsu .

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Gift of M. Knoedler and Company

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