Deer in a Monastery Garden
1912 · Oil on canvas · Lenbachhaus, Munich
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About this work
- Artist
- Franz Marc (1880–1916)
- Year
- 1912
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 75.7 × 101 cm
- Collection
- Lenbachhaus, Munich
- Movement
- Expressionism
A small deer, hard to find at first, rests among a dense lattice of green, pink, yellow, violet and blue forms; the arches and walls of a monastery garden, its trees and a pale moon-like disc at upper left are broken into overlapping prismatic planes. The picture first reads as pure colour structure, and the animal emerges only slowly. Marc painted it in 1912, the year he and August Macke visited Robert Delaunay in Paris, and it is among the first works in which he took up Delaunay's transparent, interpenetrating colour. The hidden animal makes it a picture about the creature's place within nature rather than a portrait of it, an idea that runs through all his late work. It is in the Lenbachhaus in Munich.
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 hidden deer among prismatic arches of green, pink, yellow and violet, for a living room, bedroom or study at 24×18 in natural wood. A sage, cream or lilac wall; it pairs with Deer in the Forest I.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Expressionism painting
- Era
- 20th century (1912)
- Orientation
- Landscape
- Mood
- classic
- Rooms
- living room, bedroom, study or library, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 24×18. Prints at 16×12, 24×18 in — 16×12 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 24×18 above a console or sideboard.
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.
