Print of Ivan Aivazovsky - The ninth wave - 1850
Ivan Aivazovsky - The ninth wave
Year: 1850 - oil on canvas cm 332x221
Preserved at: Russian State Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
The Ninth Wave is the most famous painting by the painter Ivan Aivazovsky. The painting depicts six shipwrecked on a wreck, represented by the mast of a sailing ship, at the mercy of the waves, as the ninth wave approaches, the most feared by the nautical tradition.