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| Sun Setting over a Lake, c. 1840, oil on canvas, 107 x 138 cm, Tate Britain |
"Turner lived in a cellar. Once a week he had the shutters suddenly flung open, and then what incandescence! What dazzlement! What jewels!"
- Henri Matisse, 1943
Tuesday, 17 May 2011
Bite 112: J.M.W. Turner - Sun Setting over a Lake, c. 1840
Posted on May 17, 2011 by niten
Posted in art history, England, landscape, Modern Art, painting, quotation, quote, Romanticism, Sublime
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