Large Bright Shop Window
1912 · Oil on canvas · Sprengel Museum, Hannover
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About this work
- Artist
- August Macke (1887–1914)
- Year
- 1912
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 106.8 × 82.8 cm
- Collection
- Sprengel Museum, Hannover
- Movement
- Expressionism
A woman in a long blue coat and broad hat stands with her back to us before a brilliantly lit shop window, its glass breaking the scene into a vortex of reflections, displayed goods, passing horses and carriages and splinters of red, green, white and black. She is the one calm, solid form in a picture full of refracted light. Macke painted it in 1912, probably in November, after seeing an exhibition of Italian Futurist painting in Cologne with Franz Marc, and it resembles Boccioni's The Street Enters the House in its centred figure and shattered space. Fashion and shop windows became one of his favourite subjects in the two years before his death in the war in September 1914, at the age of twenty-seven. It is in the Sprengel Museum in Hanover.
This full-bleed edition prints the work edge to edge from a high-resolution scan of the original, very slightly cropped (a few percent at most) to fit the sheet. The gallery edition shows the whole work, uncropped. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
A woman in a blue coat before a shop window shattered into red, green and white reflections, for a hallway, dressing room or living room at 18×24 in natural wood. A white, slate or deep red wall; it pairs with Promenade.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Expressionism painting
- Era
- 20th century (1912)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Mood
- classic
- Rooms
- living room, hallway or entryway, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 18×24. Prints at 12×16, 18×24 in — 12×16 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 18×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway.
Framing. Printed edge to edge: a slim black or natural wood frame right to the image, or let the canvas wrap do the framing.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
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About this design
The Madten promise
An exhibition poster
The same artwork as a gallery exhibition poster — title, artist & date typeset beneath the image on a soft ground.
A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
