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 exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. 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
- Exhibition poster of a Expressionism painting
- Era
- 20th century (1911)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- cream & beige
- Mood
- classic
- Rooms
- hallway or entryway, kids room, living room, 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
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A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
