Resting Horses Franz Marc

• One of Franz Marc’s rarest and most significant colour woodcuts from his creative period within the ‘Blauer Reiter’ circle • The four horses embody Marc’s vision of harmony, security and the primordial unity of animal and nature • A particularly beautiful, vibrantly coloured hand-printed proof by the artist in an early impression, bearing his hand-signed signature and a personal dedication Four horses lie close together, their bodies partly nestled against one another and almost merging with the surrounding landscape. Franz Marc eschews a naturalistic depiction of the animals and instead develops a composition of curved lines, powerful contours and interlocking areas of colour. The individual horses’ bodies can sometimes only be distinguished from one another by their outlines. This creates the impression of a cohesive, self-contained community. Colour plays a decisive role here: The interplay of the blue and green shaded areas with the light-illumined, exposed sections of the cream-coloured paper lends the horses’ bodies a sense of three-dimensionality. The bold black lines give structure to the composition and lend it a particular dynamism, without disrupting the peaceful overall atmosphere. The animals do not appear as individual beings in a landscape, but as a natural part of a natural order. The motif of the resting horses is a copy of Marc’s conception of a primordial unity between animal and nature. By reducing the work to a few colours and essential forms, the artist finds a visual language that goes beyond the mere representation of the visible and expresses the inner connectedness of living beings. | 1880 München - Verdun 1916 | Moderne Kunst | Druckgrafik | Nummer: 26x2349 | Provenance: Privatsammlung, Schweiz; Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg 4.12.2004, Los 895; Sammlung Olbricht, Deutschland, bei Vorgenannter erworben.

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