Weasels at Play
1911 · Oil on canvas · National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
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About this work
- Artist
- Franz Marc (1880–1916)
- Year
- 1911
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 101 × 68 cm
- Collection
- National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
- Movement
- Expressionism
Two orange-red weasels leap and tumble on a green and pink slope among bare, curving tree trunks in red, violet, orange and green, beneath a band of blue and white sky and yellow hills. The trees bend and twist as if they shared the animals' motion. Marc painted it in 1911, the year he formed the Blue Rider with Kandinsky and arrived at the bright, non-naturalistic colour of his best-known work. The painting was in the collection of Bernhard Koehler, son of Marc's Berlin patron of the same name, by 1936, and was shown with that collection in Berlin in 1947 and in Amsterdam in 1955. It later passed through several private collections and was given to the National Gallery of Art in Washington in 2020 by Arnold and Joan Saltzman.
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 orange weasels tumbling among curving red, violet and green trees, for a child's room, playroom or hallway at 24×36 in natural wood. A leaf green, cream or sky blue wall; it pairs with The Foxes.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Expressionism painting
- Era
- 20th century (1911)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Mood
- classic
- Rooms
- hallway or entryway, kids room, living room, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 24×36. Prints at 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway; 24×36 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. 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.
