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Mysterious Art Prints
Mysterious art prints: paintings and prints with dark, dreamlike or enigmatic subjects, including night scenes, death, myth and the occult. Most are 19th-century Symbolist and visionary works: Arnold Böcklin's The Isle of the Dead, paintings by Fernand Khnopff, Gustave Moreau, Jacek Malczewski and Mikhail Vrubel, etchings by Max Klinger and Félicien Rops, lithographs by Rodolphe Bresdin, and William Blake's Book of Job engravings and The Tyger. The collection also includes Charles Meryon's etchings of Paris, Henry Fuseli, Alfred Kubin, Ohara Koson's Crow at Full Moon, Henrique Alvim Corrêa's War of the Worlds illustration (1906), and plates from an 18th-century German book of magic (c. 1775).
The works were chosen because they leave their meaning open.
The dark palettes suit studies, libraries and dimly lit hallways. All prints are museum-quality reproductions, available unframed or framed with low-glare acrylic glazing, with free shipping and import duties covered.
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Note: Framed prints require slightly longer production time
A massive carved stone sphinx head, its headdress cracked and weathered, rises from windblown desert sand beneath a dark teal sky. A barefoot man in a green robe kneels at its base, pressing his ear to the sphinx's lips as if listening. Broken stone blocks lie scattered nearby; a wooden staff lies on the sand below him and a bleached human skull rests at the lower right.
Elihu Vedder (1836–1923) was an American Symbolist painter who settled in Rome after the Civil War and lived there for most of his career. Trained in New York under Tompkins H. Matteson and in Paris under François-Édouard Picot, he painted sphinxes, sibyls and cosmic allegories, and produced fifty-five illustrations for the 1884 deluxe edition of FitzGerald's translation of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, a publishing success. He also painted murals for the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. His work is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Each print is made to our Archival Museum Standards: a 12-ink giclée, printed to order. Unframed prints are made on Hahnemühle German Etching, a 310gsm matte fine-art paper. Framed prints arrive in a handmade solid-wood frame with low-reflection glazing, ready to hang. Ships worldwide with free delivery to 30+ countries.
