Classic

Classic posters: the canon, chosen for walls

There is a reason the same dozen names keep coming back: they made images that survive being reproduced small, flat and cheap. A line by Schiele or a grid by Klee still reads from the other side of a room, which is the only test that matters for wall art.

This category is that shortlist, without the museum shop markup or a gift-shop frame around it.

What is in this collection

• Picasso — Le Mer, Céramique and Estampes, all gallery documents rather than paintings.
• Paul Klee — Boy in Fancy Dress, Motif from Hammamet, Blossoming and Klee and Kandinsky on one sheet.
• Egon Schiele — the portrait, Seated Woman with Legs and the Secession Ausstellung print.
• Van Gogh — Almond Blossom, The Pink Peach Tree and The White Orchard Tree.
• Matisse, Miró and Munch — Matisse in Nice, the landscape, Miró's gallery print and Munch.

Why these images hold a room

They were made before the wall became a design decision. Schiele's figures are drawn with a nervous, angular line that fills an empty space instead of decorating it; Klee's watercolours are quiet enough to sit above a desk for years; Van Gogh's blossom branches are the one nineteenth-century subject that reads as contemporary in a white room.

That range is useful. The same category gives you a loud anchor piece for a living room and something almost silent for a hallway, without the wall ending up looking like a poster shop.

How to choose, and how to hang

Pick one big name and one quieter one, not three big ones. A Picasso announcement, a Léger or a Braque print and a wall of empty paint is a better arrangement than a gallery of faces.

Hang at eye level, mount in white, keep the frames identical if you use more than one. If you want the historical context of the sheets themselves, the exhibition category covers the gallery side; the artists' own pages are under Picasso, Klee, Schiele, Van Gogh and Matisse.

One more sheet belongs here and hangs differently from the rest: the Van Gogh show poster, a portrait in a blue hat and a mustard jacket against a green ground, with the lettering set in red beneath the image. It keeps the shape a gallery sheet had, picture above and announcement below, with a wide cream margin holding the two apart. That margin is why it works in a hallway as well as above a sofa, and why it asks for nothing beside it.

Sizes, paper and delivery

Pigment print on 210 gsm Hahnemühle paper, sizes from 30×40 to 70×100 cm plus A3 and A2. Frame not included. Orders leave the studio within 24 business hours, delivery inside the EU takes 3–5 working days, and every parcel is tracked.