The Little Monkey
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
- 70.4 × 100 cm
- Collection
- Lenbachhaus, Munich
- Movement
- Expressionism
A small grey-blue monkey with a long striped tail perches on a sloping pink and red branch, surrounded by fronds and leaves of green, red and yellow, with a white flower at right and a cluster of red fruit below. The foliage is painted in sweeping, faceted strokes that tilt the whole picture diagonally upward with the branch. Marc painted it in 1912, the year after the first Blue Rider exhibition, when he was turning his animal pictures toward prismatic colour and interlocking forms. Exotic animals, monkeys and tigers, appear that year beside his familiar horses, cows and deer, part of his search for creatures that could stand for an untouched, paradisal nature. The painting 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 grey-blue monkey on a pink branch among green and red leaves and red fruit, for a child's room, nursery or playroom at 24×16 in natural wood. A leaf green, cream or soft pink wall; it pairs with The Tiger.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Expressionism painting
- Era
- 20th century (1912)
- Orientation
- Landscape
- Mood
- classic
- Rooms
- nursery, kids room, living room, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 24×16. Prints at 18×12, 24×16 in — 18×12 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 24×16 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. Also available gallery-wrapped on canvas, ready to hang with no frame.
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.
