Updated 14 May 2025
Currently not on display
Currently not on display
The Blue Wave
| Date | 1917 |
|---|---|
| Materials and Techniques | Lithograph on paper |
| Size（cm） | 40.2 x 57.1 |
| Inscriptions | Signed and dated in pencil lower right margin: C. R. W. Nevinson 1917; inscribed lower left: 106 / No. 18; lower left on the reverse: K. Matsukata Esq. |
| Credit Line | Ex-Matsukata Collection |
| Standard ref. | M2634 |
| Category | Prints |
| Collection Number | G.2017-0108 |
Provenance
The Leicester Galleries, London, on consignment from artist; purchased from the Leicester Galleries by Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe, 1 February 1918 (£2.625) [see the Leicester Galleries records at Ernest & Phillips Ltd.; copy in NMWA curatorial files]; pledged by Matsukata to save his business, Kawasaki Dockyard Co., Ltd., Kobe and then seized by Jugo Bank, Tokyo, 1927; private collection, Japan; deposited in NMWA, 25 January 2016, ref. no. 51; purchased by NMWA, 13 July 2017.
Bibliography
- 2019
- Annual Bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 52 (Apr. 2017-Mar. 2018), 2019, List of New Acquisitions. p. 32.
- 2019
- The Matsukata Collection: Complete Catalogue of the European Art. Kawaguchi, Masako; Jingaoka, Megumi, eds. vol. 2: Sculpture, Drawings, Prints and Decorative Arts and Other Works, Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2019, cat. no. 2634, col. repr.