The Foxes
1913 · Oil on canvas · Private collection
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About this work
- Artist
- Franz Marc (1880–1916)
- Year
- 1913
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 88.3 × 66.4 cm
- Collection
- Private collection
- Movement
- Expressionism
Two red foxes are woven into a crystalline mesh of red, white, black, blue and violet planes, one with its head bent down, the other stretching forward toward a beam of yellow light, with a dark crescent at upper left. Animals and surroundings are broken into the same faceted forms, so the picture reads almost like stained glass. Marc painted it in 1913, after seeing French Cubism and the Orphic paintings of Robert Delaunay. The banker Kurt Grawi bought it in 1928; persecuted by the Nazi regime, he emigrated to Chile and sold the painting in 1940. It later passed to Helmut Horten, who gave it to the city of Düsseldorf in 1962. After a restitution claim by Grawi's heirs, the Museum Kunstpalast returned it to them in 2022, and they sold it; it is now in a private collection.
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
Two red foxes woven into a crystalline mesh of red, white, violet and blue, for a child's room, study or living room at 18×24 in natural wood. A deep green, cream or warm grey wall; it pairs with The Tiger.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Expressionism painting
- Era
- 20th century (1913)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Mood
- classic
- Rooms
- living room, study or library, kids room, 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.
