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Little Blue Horse

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Little Blue Horse
German: Blaues Pferdchen
ArtistFranz Marc
Year1912
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensions57.5 cm × 73 cm (22.6 in × 29 in)
LocationSaarland Museum, Saarbrücken

Little Blue Horse is an oil on canvas painting by German Expressionist painter Franz Marc, from 1912.

Description

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The has the dimensions of 57.5 x 73 centimeters. It is in the collection of the Saarland Museum, in Saarbrücken.[1][2] The picture depicts a young horse in the foreground, standing with its legs in a balanced position. There is a small stream at his side, and behind the horse, we can see a flowering plant in front of a mountainous landscape. The horse has a blue color, while the mountains and the sky alternate between the red, yellow, blue and orange colours.

Provenance

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Marc made the painting for Walterchen, the son of his friend and colleague August Macke, a fact that the inscription at his top right demonstrates. In 1956, the museum director Rudolf Bornschein acquired the painting for the Saarbrücker Stadt-und Heimatmuseum, which in 1968 merged with the Moderne Galerie. Little Blue Horse is one of the Saarbrücker Sammlung's most famous works.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Concentric Group - Oskar Schlemmer". www.europeana.eu.
  2. ^ "Saarland Museum | Landeshauptstadt Saarbrücken". www.saarbruecken.de. Retrieved 2016-05-11.

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