
A small boat carries a white-shrouded figure and a coffin toward a rocky island of cypresses and tombs. Böcklin painted five versions and never explained it. Rachmaninoff wrote a tone poem after it, and Hitler later owned this one.
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Böcklin called it "a picture for dreaming": note the water, perfectly still, without a single ripple.
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