The Lifeboat is Taken through the Dunes  1883

The low, dark winter skies and densely filled picture plane deepens the sense of intense concentration, of heroic grandeur. [br] [b]The painting's composition[/b] The waves on the bluish-black ocean seem to force their way up into the snow-covered dunes which echo the tumbling waves by lifting up the lifeboat, prefiguring the launch of the boat and how it will break thr...