Red Woman by Franz Marc
Oil, 1912.
Art work details
- Original Title :
- Rote Frau
- Year of production :
- 1912
- Artist:
- Franz Marc
- Medium :
- Oil painting
- Materials:
- Oil paint, Canvas
- Dimensions :
- height: 100.5 cms; width: 70 cms
- Credit Line :
- Purchased in 1944
- Associated Groups :
- Der Blaue Reiter
- Tags:
- Nudity, Red, Marc
Red Woman was one of Marc’s last paintings containing the human figure and reflects the humanistic idea of man’s interrelationship with nature. A ‘primitive’ woman, untouched by the corrupting influence of civilisation, is harmoniously absorbed into a strangely patterned two-dimensional background.
Marc uses colours emotively and symbolically to evoke a paradisiacal setting. The intense red of the woman’s body represents ‘matter, brutal and heavy’, a colour he believed had to be opposed by blue, ‘severe and spiritual’ and yellow, ‘gentle, happy and sensual.’
The additional images show a 1944 letter sent to Mr Hess from Leicester Museums regarding the acquisition of The Red Woman and other artwork. Also shown is a 1959 Leicester Mercury article 'Picture of the Month'. The article calls The Red Woman 'The Girl With Black Hair'.
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