fantastic night marianne von werefkin

fantastic night marianne von werefkinA small format painting produced in 1917, "Fantastic Night" mobilises a host of themes dear to Marianne von Werefkin, such as nature, the night and traditional architecture. In this work, originally painted on cardboard, the exaggerated curvature of the trees and the unrealism of the bright colours are typical of the Expressionist movement. Would you like to buy another painting by Marianne von Werefkin? Discover all our reproductions of this artist.

is a recurrent subject in the artist's work and is a central motif in many of his compositions

this work by Amedeo Modigliani representing Jean Cocteau is one of the artist's key works

In the year of his death on the battlefield

is disrupted when the gaping triangle reverses the direction of the composition to raise the earthly spirit to the celestial

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with paintings such as Léman and Savoyard Alps and Lanscape on lake Geneva

blue and yellow

The colour palette

he wrote in a letter: "I saw in this reaper - a vague figure who struggles like a devil in the heat to get through his work - I saw in it the image of death

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The different parts of the composition are unified by the surface effect of the shimmering planes