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A giclée print on 200gsm matte fine art paper, using a twelve-colour process for accurate, fade-resistant colour. Supplied unframed, delivered flat or rolled.
Dealer with Jugs - August Macke
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A modernist watercolour by August Macke, created during his 1914 trip to Tunisia, featuring a merchant surrounded by geometric ceramic forms.
August Macke painted Dealer with Jugs during his 1914 journey to Tunisia, a trip he undertook with Paul Klee and Louis Moilliet. This period represents a shift in his approach to colour and form, as the Mediterranean light influenced his palette and compositional structure. The work displays a flattened, grid-like arrangement that organises the scene into distinct zones of colour. Macke uses watercolour to build up these areas, allowing the transparency of the medium to create a sense of luminosity.
The figure of the dealer stands centrally, positioned among an array of ceramic vessels. Macke does not attempt to render the scene with photographic accuracy. Instead, he focuses on the interaction between the objects and the surrounding space. The jugs are depicted with simplified, bold outlines, while the background is composed of geometric blocks of blue, yellow, and red. This method of construction reflects the influence of contemporary European movements, such as Cubism and Fauvism, which Macke synthesised into his own visual language.
Despite the reduction of form, the work retains a clear narrative quality. The arrangement of the pottery and the presence of the merchant suggest a busy marketplace, yet the treatment remains detached and observational. Macke avoids heavy shading or complex perspective, preferring to let the relationships between the colour fields define the composition. The result is a study of light and form that captures the atmosphere of the North African environment through a distinctly modernist lens. This piece remains a clear example of the artist's ability to balance decorative pattern with structural clarity, a quality that defined his final works before his death later that year.
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Every Solis piece is made to order with archival, gallery-quality materials built to last.
- Museum-grade giclée printing for rich, fade-resistant colour
- Archival matte fine-art paper, FSC-certified
- Multiple sizes and framing options available
- Frames in black, natural wood, dark wood or white
- Framed prints arrive ready to hang
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- Dust gently with a soft, dry cloth
- Avoid prolonged direct sunlight
- Never use liquid cleaners on the print or canvas surface
- Keep in a dry, room-temperature space
- Handle prints with clean, dry hands
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Museum-grade giclée on FSC-certified archival matte paper, with framed and canvas options.
- Paper sizes: A4, A3, A2, A1, A0 and B2 (50×70 cm)
- Canvas: XS (20×30 cm) to Large (60×90 cm)
- Frames: black, natural wood, dark wood or white
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Dealer with Jugs - August Macke
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Från £28.00 GBP
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Från £28.00 GBP
Ordinarie pris
Fine Art Poster / A4 (21x29.7 cm) / -
Artist Biography
August Macke
Macke was twenty-seven when he was killed on the Western Front in September 1914. He had been painting seriously for about six years. In April of that same year he had been in Tunisia with Paul Klee and Louis Moilliet, making watercolours in the souks of Tunis and Kairouan. The gap between the two events, four months, is one of the starkest in modern art.
He grew up in a family of building contractors in Meschede, Westphalia, with no artistic connections. He visited Paris multiple times and absorbed Impressionism, Fauvism and Cubism in rapid succession, but his paintings look like none of those movements. What he took from France was colour: warm, saturated, joyful. His street scenes, market squares and park promenades glow with a light that belongs to someone who finds the world beautiful and wants to record it before it changes.
He met Franz Marc in 1910, and through Marc became involved with Der Blaue Reiter. His temperament was the opposite of Kandinsky's theoretical intensity. Macke painted intuitively, quickly, and with an optimism that made him the most approachable of the German Expressionists.
The Tunisian watercolours are his finest work: small, luminous, almost abstract in their reduction of architecture and figures to planes of colour. Klee wrote afterward that colour had taken possession of him. The same could be said of Macke, who had been working toward that moment for years.
He was drafted immediately when war broke out. His wife Elisabeth received notification of his death six weeks later. Marc, his closest friend, was killed at Verdun in 1916.
He grew up in a family of building contractors in Meschede, Westphalia, with no artistic connections. He visited Paris multiple times and absorbed Impressionism, Fauvism and Cubism in rapid succession, but his paintings look like none of those movements. What he took from France was colour: warm, saturated, joyful. His street scenes, market squares and park promenades glow with a light that belongs to someone who finds the world beautiful and wants to record it before it changes.
He met Franz Marc in 1910, and through Marc became involved with Der Blaue Reiter. His temperament was the opposite of Kandinsky's theoretical intensity. Macke painted intuitively, quickly, and with an optimism that made him the most approachable of the German Expressionists.
The Tunisian watercolours are his finest work: small, luminous, almost abstract in their reduction of architecture and figures to planes of colour. Klee wrote afterward that colour had taken possession of him. The same could be said of Macke, who had been working toward that moment for years.
He was drafted immediately when war broke out. His wife Elisabeth received notification of his death six weeks later. Marc, his closest friend, was killed at Verdun in 1916.
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