Has anyone ever seen "The Great Wave" at the Met?

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This is probably a dumb question, but I just want a sanity check…

In theory, the painting “The Great Wave Off Kanagawa” is at the Met in NYC:
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/hokusai/

I’ve gone to the Met a couple dozen times and have not managed to find it. Does anyone know where it is?

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I’m pretty sure I saw iton a greeting card in the gift shop. Or do you mean the original? :slight_smile:

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It’s listed as being in the permanent collection, so it should be there somewhere. It’s small, only 10 inches by 15 inches, so it’s probably easy to overlook; perhaps you missed it somewhere? I nearly strolled right by American Gothic in Chicago, because it was so small and unassuming, and the Great Wave is quite a bit smaller than that, maybe a quarter of the size.

And of course there’s always the possibility that, even though it’s at the Met, it could be “off display” for one reason or another.

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[QUOTE=Arnold Winkelried]
I’m pretty sure I saw iton a greeting card in the gift shop. Or do you mean the original? :slight_smile:
[/QUOTE]
Ha. They actually have a big poster of it in the gift shop alcove right near the Asian area. And no, they don’t know where it is either.

And further research reveals it’s actually a print that the Meta has, not a painting. But still…