Franz Marc

The Fate of the Animals

US$ 732.00

Animals scatter through a forest splintering into shards of red, blue and green, a green deer at the centre raising its head as the world comes apart around it. Marc painted it in 1913 and wrote on the back that it was like a premonition of war; he was killed at Verdun three years later. The canvas was damaged by fire during the First World War and partly restored by Paul Klee.

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Franz Marc (1880-1916) co-founded Der Blaue Reiter with Kandinsky and built his short career almost entirely around animals, which he considered purer and more spiritually whole than human beings. He assigned emotional meanings to specific colours — blue for the masculine and spiritual, yellow for the feminine and gentle, red for matter and violence — and painted by that system. He died at Verdun at 36, just as he was being recalled from the front as a culturally significant artist.

Material Archival canvas
Frame Supplied rolled, unframed
Print Fine-art print, printed to order
Size 54 × 40 inches
Delivery 2–3 weeks
Certificate of Authenticity Included, emailed on delivery
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