波瑞阿斯

Waterhouse showed this at the Royal Academy in 1904, a girl leaning into a cold spring wind, her slate-blue drapery streaming, daffodils and pink blossom around her. He named it Boreas, after the Greek god of the north wind, though what you actually see is just the wind on a young woman in a field. Then the picture vanished. After that exhibition nobody knew where it was, and by the time Waterhouse's biographer wrote about him in 1989 it was simply listed as lost. It stayed lost for about 90 years. It surfaced again in the mid-1990s and came up at auction at Christie's in London in 1996, where it sold for 848,500 pounds, a record for the artist at the time. The wind is the whole subject here, and you can read its direction in every fold of cloth and bent stem.