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1st Art Gallery offers the option to receive your painting ready to hang or rolled in a tube.
Currently, for safety, we're able to ship framed paintings only up to a certain size. Once the maximum size is reached, the framing option is automatically disabled.
However, if you are interested in stretching or framing a painting larger than 24x36 inches (60x90 cm), please contact one of our customer success associates or let us know in your order notes. We will send you a catalog of our large framing styles and pricing options.
Unframed rolled canvas orders will arrive rolled inside a protective tube with an extra 1.5" white canvas on all sides so you can easily frame it locally.
In 1903, a year before Gustav Klimt painted Water Serpents I, the artist was visiting Italy and was awed by the early Christian mosaics that incorporated an amalgamation of symbols, patterns, gold leaf filigree, and stark, sharp brushstrokes. The style was to influence him for the rest of his life and, along with his fascination with Byzantine devotional icons, would inform the genesis of his Gold period, of which Water Serpents I was an early hint. Like Klimt’s Mother and Child and Goldfish, Water Serpents I features angular, distorted gestural movements, with aquatic female forms jostling for position amid the ornamental reeds and riverbed, craning their bodies into an embrace. A playful game of tactility and depth, Klimt’s painting is no reproduction of a mythical dream, but a journey across - and between - surfaces.
Part of Klimt’s modernizing vision and the mission of his artistic group the Vienna Secession, was often carried forward in the form of the nude or sexualized female figure. The bodies of his female subjects were more important to the artist than a mere vehicle of bodily reproduction but rather a vessel for the themes of renewal, rebellion, and the exotic in the face of conservative politics. The embrace of the two women in Water Serpents I would have surely offended, enraged, and confused contemporary audiences, yet the whale-like head would have given clues to the work’s allegorical pretensions. The addition of gold leaf and highly ornamental patterns certainly defused the public reaction to many of Klimt’s works, imbuing them with qualities comparable to that of architecture, furniture design, and interior decoration. Disguising frank and honest subject matters beneath the veil of myth or fairy tale allowed the artist to use nineteenth century modes of representation to articulate truly Modern themes.
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Important Notes About Your Painting:
If you have any request to alter your reproduction of Water Serpents I, you must email us after placing your order and we'll have an artist contact you. If you have another image of Water Serpents I that you would like the artist to work from, please include it as an attachment. Otherwise, we will reproduce the above image for you exactly as it is.
- Ordered without a frame, it will be delivered in protective tube within 21-28 business days.
- When ordering the painting framed - allow additional 5-7 days for delivery. The painting will arrive ready to hang.
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- No printing or digital imaging techniques are used.
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Free shipping is included in the price of the painting. Once the painting is ready and dry enough to ship, we will roll it and ship it in a sturdy cardboard tube.
We always ship express via courier to ensure your order reaches you as soon as possible - normally within three business days. The total delivery time from the moment you place your order until the package is delivered to your door is normally between three to four weeks.
If, in the unlikely event you were dissatisfied with the painting after reviewing it in person, it can be returned for a full refund for up to 365 days after delivery.
When you receive the painting; you are free to return it for more revisions or else for a full refund minus our actual shipping cost -- which is, on average, $35 per painting.
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Depending on the degree of damage to the warranted painting, it will either be repaired or replaced. This warranty service is provided free of charge.
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