The Sheep
1913–14 · Oil on canvas · Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
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About this work
- Artist
- Franz Marc (1880–1916)
- Year
- 1913–14
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 54.5 × 77 cm
- Collection
- Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
- Movement
- Expressionism
A curled white sheep lies at the centre, its body a pale green-white curve, surrounded by a whirl of prismatic forms in blue, green, red, yellow and violet that seem to rotate around it, with a jagged blue zigzag at the right. The animal is still legible but has nearly merged with the abstract structure of the landscape. Marc painted it in 1913–14, when the interpenetrating colour planes of Robert Delaunay were reshaping his own work and his pictures were moving steadily away from the animal toward pure form, as in Fighting Forms of 1914. The sheep's resting curve gives a calm centre to the movement around it, a balance he would soon abandon. It is in the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam.
This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
A curled white sheep at the heart of a whirl of blue, green, red and violet, for a bedroom, nursery or living room at 24×36 in natural wood. A pale green, white or soft blue wall; it pairs with Deer in the Forest II.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Exhibition poster of a Expressionism painting
- Era
- 20th century (1913–14)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- cream & beige
- Mood
- classic
- Rooms
- living room, bedroom, nursery, dining room, dorm 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. 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.
