Updated 18 April 2025
Currently not on display
Currently not on display
Stormy Weather at Sea
| Date | 1889 |
|---|---|
| Materials and Techniques | oil on canvas |
| Size（cm） | 98 x 124 |
| Inscriptions | Signed and dated lower right: F. Brangwyn 1889 |
| Credit Line | Ex-Matsukata Collection |
| Standard ref. | M111 |
| Category | Paintings |
| Collection Number | P.2001-0003 |
Kojiro Matsukata first met the British painter Frank Brangwyn at the end of the 1910s.Then the president of Kawasaki Dockyard Co., Ltd., Matsukata started collecting art in Europe with a view to establishing a museum in Japan. Brangwyn advised him on his British purchases, exerting a considerable influence on the Matsukata Collection. Brangwyn’s own paintings, with their vibrant brushwork, often depict ships and shipyards and those working in them. Matsukata must have warmed to such familiar motifs. (Source: Gallery label, October 2016)
Provenance
The Fine Art Society, London, as ‘Stand By!’ [gallery label on the reverse]; Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe; pledged by Matsukata to save his business, Kawasaki Dockyard Co., Ltd., Kobe and then seized by Jugo Bank, Tokyo, 1927 [Jugo Bank label on the reverse]; 3rd Matsukata Sale, Tokyo, 17 May–4 July 1930, lot 8, repr.; private collection, Tokyo; deposited in NMWA, Tokyo, 16 July 1960–2001, Dep. 60-27 (D-18); purchased by NMWA, 24 January 2002.
Exhibition History
- 1890
- The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 0 1890 - 0 1890, no. 635, as ‘Stand By!’
- 1930
- The 3rd Exhibition of the Matsukata Coll., Tokyo, 17 May 1930 - 4 June 1930, cat. no. 8
- 1957
- La collection Matsukata, Shiroki-ya, Tokyo, 9 April 1957 - 28 April 1957, cat. no. 155, repr.
- 2010
- Exhibition of Frank Brangwyn: In commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the National Museum of Western Art, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 23 February 2010 - 30 May 2010, cat. no. 57
- 2019
- The Matsukata Collection: A One-Hundred-Year Odyssey: Upon the 60th Anniversary of the NMWA, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 11 June 2019 - 23 September 2019, cat. no. 72, col. repr.
- 2022
- Renoir—Monet—Gauguin: Images of a Floating World: the Collections of Kōjirō Matsukata and Karl Ernst Osthaus, Museum Folkwang, 6 February 2022 - 15 May 2022
- 2024
- Does the Future Sleep Here?: Revisiting the Museum's Response to Contemporary Art after 65 Years, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 12 March 2024 - 12 May 2024
Bibliography
- 1990
- The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. 123.
- 2003
- Annual bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 36 (Apr. 2001-Mar. 2002), 2003, Takahashi, AKiya. New Acquisitions. pp. 16-17, List of New Acquisitions. p. 37, repr.
- 2013
- Masterpieces: The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. Tokyo, The Western Art Foundation, 2013 (Japanese, preface in Japanese and English), no. 116, col. repr.
- 2018
- The Matsukata Collection: Complete Catalogue of the European Art. Kawaguchi, Masako; Jingaoka, Megumi, eds. vol. 1: Paintings, Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2018, cat. no. 111, col. repr.
- 2019
- The Matsukata Collection: A One-Hundred-Year Odyssey (exh. cat.). Jingaoka, Megumi, ed. Tokyo, The National Museum of the Western Art, Tokyo; Yomiuri Shimbun; NHK; NHK Promotions, 2019, pp. 148-149, 361, cat. no. 72, col. repr.
- 2022
- Renoir—Monet—Gauguin: Images of a Floating World: the Collections of Kōjirō Matsukata and Karl Ernst Osthaus (exh.cat.). Engel, Nadine; Herlemann, Rebecca, eds. Berlin, Hatje Cantz, [2022], pp. 201, 363, col. repr.