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{{short description|1850 painting by Ivan Aïvazovsky}}
{{redirect|Ninth wave}}
{{Infobox artwork
| image_file=File:Hovhannes Aivazovsky - The Ninth Wave - Google Art Project.jpg
| title=The Ninth Wave
| artist=[[Ivan Aivazovsky]]
| year=1850
| medium=Oil-on-canvas
| height_metric= 221
| width_metric= 332
| metric_unit = cm
| imperial_unit = in
| museum=[[State Russian Museum]]
| city= [[St. Petersburg]]}}
'''''The Ninth Wave''''' ({{langx|ru|Девятый вал}}, ''Dyevyatiy val'') is an [[1850 in art|1850]] painting by Russian [[marine art|marine painter]] [[Ivan Aivazovsky]]. It is his best-known work.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Ninth Wave|url=http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/05/hm5_9_0_32_1.html|publisher=[[Hermitage Museum]]|accessdate=1 November 2013|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131104185704/http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/05/hm5_9_0_32_1.html|archivedate=4 November 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Aivazovsky, I. K. The Ninth Wave. 1850|url=http://www.auburn.edu/~mitrege/russian/art/target.php?file=00166|publisher=[[Auburn University]]|accessdate=10 December 2013|quote=Detail from "The Ninth Wave" "The Ninth Wave," painted in 1850, is Aivazovsky's most famous work and is an archetypal image for the artist.}}</ref>

The title refers to an old sailing expression referring to a wave of incredible size that comes after a succession of incrementally larger waves.<ref>[http://framing.indiana.edu/2015/01/05/debating-globalization-ninth-wave/ Debating Globalization and the Ninth Wave] at University of Indiana Framing the Global Program Debate</ref>

It depicts a sea after a night storm and people facing death attempting to save themselves by clinging to debris from a wrecked ship. The debris, in the shape of the cross, appears to be a Christian metaphor for salvation from the earthly sin. The painting has warm tones, which reduce the sea's apparent menacing overtones and a chance for the people to survive seems plausible. This painting shows both the destructiveness and beauty of nature.{{citation needed|date=April 2022}}

==References==
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==External links==
*{{Commons category-inline|The Ninth Wave by Ivan Aivazovsky|''The Ninth Wave'' by Ivan Aivazovsky}}
*[https://rmgallery.ru/en/145 The Ninth Wave, 1850] at the [[Russian State Museum]]

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