Tree Trunks, Arresødal
1904 · Oil on canvas · Statens Museum for Kunst
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This print
About this work
- Artist
- Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864–1916)
- Year
- 1904
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 45.5 × 68.5 cm
- Collection
- Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK), Copenhagen
- Movement
- Symbolism
Dark, slender tree trunks stand on a low grassy slope against a pale grey sky, their brown foliage soft and blurred, as if seen through mist or failing light. There are no people, paths or buildings, only the trunks spaced across the canvas and a ground of dry brown grass. Hammershøi painted these trees at Arresødal near Frederiksværk in North Zealand in 1904. The picture once belonged to the collector Alfred Bramsen; when it was sold at auction in 1998 to an English buyer, an export ban kept it in Denmark and it was bought for the National Gallery of Denmark.
This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
Browns and soft greys with dark upright trunks suit a living room, study or a bedroom furnished in linen and wood. Pair it with Friedrich's The Abbey in the Oakwood and hang this one at 16×24 in a dark wood frame.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Exhibition poster of a Symbolism painting
- Era
- 20th century (1904)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- cream & beige
- Mood
- calm
- Rooms
- living room, bedroom, study or library, dining room, dorm room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 16×24. 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. Exhibition posters sit best in a slim black frame with no mat — the typeset margin is the mat.
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
A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
