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How Do I Pair Two or Three Art Prints Together?

Four simple rules for pairing art prints — same artist, same palette, same subject, same format — each shown with a ready-matched set, plus how to size and space a pair or trio on the wall.

Dark, Strange and Beautiful: Symbolist and Mystic Art for Autumn Walls

Moonlit lakes, hooded figures, angels and islands: a buyer's guide to Symbolist and mystic art prints — which mood suits which room, from quiet night scenes for bedrooms to Kubin and Fludd in black...

Ukiyo-e vs Shin Hanga: Which Japanese Print Style Suits Your Room?

Ukiyo-e and shin hanga are both Japanese woodblock prints, made the same way, a century apart. One reads as bold graphic pattern, the other as quiet light and weather. Five side-by-side pairs — rai...

When Are Expensive Art Prints Worth It — and When Are They Not?

This article is part of our Guide to Buying Fine Art Prints. Expensive art prints are not automatically better. That is the first thing to say. A higher price can reflect better paper, better print...

Henri Matisse Prints: From the Cut-Outs to Jazz — A Buyer's Guide

There are three Matisses — the cut-outs, the exhibition posters and the Fauve paintings — and each does a different job in a room. A buyer's guide to which Matisse to hang where, and at what size.

Art for Rooms People Gather In: Living Room and Dining Room Prints

The living room and the dining room are the walls guests actually see. One hero print and one ready-made set for each room, and the size that makes them look right.

Best Bauhaus Prints for Minimalist Interiors

Ten Bauhaus prints that work in a minimalist room — the 1923 exhibition designs, Klee, Kandinsky, Moholy-Nagy, the Albers colour squares, and the De Stijl and Suprematist neighbours the school publ...

Paul Klee Prints: Colour, Line and Play — Which Klee for Which Room

Paul Klee made nearly ten thousand works, and they are not all the same kind of picture. A buyer's guide to the three Klees people actually hang — the colour grids, the little cities, and the line ...

Hiroshi Yoshida Prints: Clouds and Mountains — Which Yoshida Belongs on Your Wall

Yoshida climbed before he printed, and his mountains show it. A buyer's guide to his four kinds of mountain — Fuji, the cloud seas at dawn, the Japan Alps, and the peaks he drew in Yosemite, the Ro...

Kawase Hasui Prints: Rain, Moonlight and Silence — Which Hasui Belongs in Your Home

Hasui made around six hundred prints, and nearly all of them are beautiful — which is exactly the problem. A buyer's guide to his four moods (rain, snow, moonlight, blue-hour water), the rooms each...