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Find the two weasels among the trunks, then follow the tall green tree in the middle and see how its branching line divides the picture.
Marc painted these weasels in 1911, the year the Blue Rider began. He makes the animals orange red and the trees purple, green and orange. By 1936 the painting belonged to Bernhard Koehler of Berlin and Munich, and in 1955 it was shown with his collection at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.
oil on canvas · overall: 101 x 68 cm · National Gallery of Art · The Blue Rider
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Details and source
- Museum title
- Weasels at Play
- Artist
- Franz Marc German, 1880 - 1916
- Date
- 1911
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- overall: 101 x 68 cm (39 3/4 x 26 3/4 in.)
- Credit line
- Collection of Arnold and Joan Saltzman
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- National Gallery of Art
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.