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Odysseus and Polyphemus by Arnold Böcklin
Original price was: $518.00.$259.00Current price is: $259.00.
Artist: Arnold Bocklin
The blinded giant hurls a boulder from the cliff while Odysseus and his crew row for their lives across a green sea: Böcklin’s Homer, half comic and all danger.
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The escape from the cyclops is the episode Böcklin chose, and he chose the moment after the boast. Odysseus, safe at sea, has shouted his real name at the blinded Polyphemus, and the giant, standing on the edge of his island, has torn a boulder from the cliff and is about to throw it. The crew row with everything they have. The sea is a hard bright green, the sky is clear, and the whole thing has the energy of a shout.
Böcklin painted it in 1896, five years before his death, on a long horizontal panel that lets the boat and the giant pull the composition apart. It is one of his last mythologies and one of his most physical. The painting is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Our hand-painted reproduction is made in oil on canvas from the original, in the same wide format.
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