The Great Wave off Kanagawa

This is the most famous Japanese print in the world! Hokusai performed it at the age of 70. This image, often renamed The Wave, is from the series "Thirty-six views of Mount Fuji", a mountain considered sacred by the Japanese. This spectacular and particularly aggressive wave seems to be closing in on a prey (the three fishing boats at the bottom of the image!). The Prussian blue used by the artist is characteristic of Hokusai's taste. At the start of the 20th century, Claude Debussy chose this work to illustrate the cover of his score La Mer. A quote that will be followed by a multitude of others until today.