The Woodcutter
1912 · Oil on canvas · Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
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About this work
- Artist
- Kazimir Malevich (1879–1935)
- Year
- 1912
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 94 × 71.5 cm
- Collection
- Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
- Movement
- Cubo-Futurism
A woodcutter in a white shirt bends over a pile of logs with his axe raised, and everything, his body, the axe and the stacked timber, is turned into gleaming cylinders and cones shaded from black through white to red and orange. The forms look almost like machine parts or stovepipes polished by light. Malevich painted it in 1912 as one of a group of Cubo-Futurist pictures of peasant life, in which the influence of Fernand Léger's tubular forms is often noted. A second painting, of peasant women in church, is on the reverse of the canvas. The work was among those Malevich left in Germany after his 1927 exhibition in Berlin, and it is now in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, which holds one of the largest groups of his paintings outside Russia.
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 woodcutter and logs turned into gleaming cylinders of black, white, red and orange, for a study, den or home office at 24×32 in black. A charcoal, rust or white wall; it pairs with Woman with Pails.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Cubo-Futurism painting
- Era
- 20th century (1912)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Mood
- classic
- Rooms
- study or library, home office, living room, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 24×32. Prints at 12×16, 18×24, 24×32 in — 12×16 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 18×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway; 24×32 as the statement piece above a sofa or bed.
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.
