Four Trees
1917 · Oil on canvas · Private collection
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About this work
- Artist
- Egon Schiele (1890–1918)
- Year
- 1917
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 110.5 × 141 cm
- Collection
- Private collection
- Movement
- Expressionism
Four trees stand in a row across a dark green hillside, three in full rust-red autumn foliage and one almost bare, against a sunset sky laid in horizontal bands of salmon pink, ochre and grey-blue; a small red sun sits low between them over a far range of mountains. Schiele painted it in 1917, and it is also known as Autumn Avenue. In 1924 it hung over the fireplace in the Vienna flat of Josef Morgenstern, who was later murdered at Auschwitz. The Belvedere bought it by 1943 and, on the advice of Austria's Art Restitution Advisory Board, returned it to his heirs in 2020.
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
Rust-red trees against a salmon-pink sunset make a warm, autumnal picture for a living room, dining room or bedroom. Pair it with Friedrich's Two Men Contemplating the Moon at 24×18 in a dark wood frame.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Expressionism painting
- Era
- 20th century (1917)
- Orientation
- Landscape
- Mood
- calm
- Rooms
- living room, bedroom, 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 dark 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.
