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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.


Klimt’s Water Serpents II provides an early example of the artist’s love of Japonism and the dissemination of new ideas on the art nouveau style. More provocative in its depiction of the highly sexualized female serpents than Water Serpents I, and not masking its subject with allegorical hints, Klimt’s painting confidently experiments with line, form, and style, in an exuberant expression of the themes that would pervade his works. These themes and genres were repeated with great frequency and with deep exploration throughout his portraits, commissions, landscapes, and mythological allegories. Water Serpents II was painted around 1907 at a time with Klimt was moving away from the Jugendstil, artistic style that characterized much of his career. The style was a floral amalgamation of English Art Nouveau and the manifestation of the influence of Japanese arts and crafts traditions.
Better known than the first painting, Water Serpents II depicts a number of feminine faces and bodies in various stages of ecstasy, nestled amid patchwork reproductions of floral arrangements and stark, contrasting waves of color. The pale, almost lifeless, hue of their bodies are offset by the immediate resilience of their gaze, challenging the eye of the viewer. Unlike the first painting, Water Serpents II does not give any hint to an aquatic setting, instead allowing the water theme of the title to bathe the subjects in light and allow their bodies to float at ease within the frame of the canvas. The painting captures Klimt at his most secure and his most confident, aware of the reaction he would cause and preferring to enjoy the process of production, and pass on that pleasure to the viewer.
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Important Notes About Your Painting:
If you have any request to alter your reproduction of Water Serpents II, you must email us after placing your order and we'll have an artist contact you. If you have another image of Water Serpents II 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.
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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.

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