The argonauts

Vibrant figures interact in this striking 1950 painting by Max Beckmann. Explore the depth of this masterpiece and bring it home today. See the full artwork page

  • Public domain

Resolution & print size

The same free image in several sizes, each labelled with the largest print it still looks sharp at. Use it to avoid downloading a web thumbnail for a poster.

  • 400 × 272 px Sharp to 10 cm at 100 dpi
  • 800 × 545 px Sharp to 20 cm at 100 dpi
  • 1200 × 817 px Sharp to 30 cm at 100 dpi
  • 1600 × 1090 px Sharp to 41 cm at 100 dpi

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The free sizes above come straight from our catalogue image. For a poster, a book, an exhibition panel or any professional use, we prepare a much larger file by hand: our in-house imaging specialists retouch it manually — dust and cracks removed, colours matched to the original, fine detail restored — and deliver it by e-mail within 72 hours, with the licence that fits your use.

  • Manual retouching by our imaging experts, not an automatic upscale
  • Maximum resolution, ready to print at 300 dpi
  • Colour accuracy checked against the original artwork
  • Personal, presentation, website, publishing or marketing licence
  • Delivered by e-mail within 72 hours, free lifetime re-delivery
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Licence & credit

The rights status of this image plus a ready credit line you can paste under it. Use it when you need to know whether you may publish, and exactly what to write.

Max Beckmann, The argonauts (1950). Public domain.

  • Commercial use, edits and reposting are all allowed.
  • Credit is appreciated, not required.
  • AI training and reference use: permitted.

Show this masterpiece on your own page

This work can now hang on your own page as well. With one copy-paste snippet, place it on your website, blog or newsletter: free of charge, with no account to create and nothing to download or host. It arrives sharp, loads quickly and sits gracefully in any layout, presented with the elegance a masterpiece deserves.

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Cite this artwork

Formatted references with the artist, date, collection and a permanent link. Use it for an essay or bibliography without retyping the details.

Citation style

Beckmann, Max. The argonauts. 1950, https://wahooart.com/en/art/max-beckmann-the-argonauts-8LSVX2-en/

Classroom pack

Material for a lesson built around this artwork: the printable image, its Student Artwork Guide, and a QR code that takes a class straight to the artwork's information page.

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QR code linking to the information page for The argonauts

Print it on the handout or project it: scanning opens this artwork's information page.

Presentation slide

A ready-made slide with the artwork placed and the credit already in the footer. Use it to drop the work into a lecture or a deck without formatting anything.

    Downloads as an image you can drop straight onto a slide.

    A presentation worthy of the work, and of your project
    When you present a piece to a client, a partner or your own guests, every detail counts. This PowerPoint deck does the preparation for you: an elegant gallery design, discreet animations, the artist and their finest works, a palette taken from the canvas, and the painting framed on a real wall at true scale. Accurate, refined and ready the moment you need it.

    Opens with its animations in PowerPoint, Keynote and Google Slides, and stays fully editable.

    Colour palette

    The dominant colours measured from the painting, with their codes. Use it to build a brand, a room or a mood-board palette from this work.

    Main colour
    Black
    Palette
    Earthy
    Hue
    Ochre to Sepia
    Harmony
    Discordant Palette
    Contrast
    Statement
    Intensity
    Monochromatic
    Saturation
    Muted
    Brightness
    deep_shadow
    Luminance
    Dark
    Variance
    Balanced Variation

      Artwork metadata

      The catalogued facts behind this image, and the permanent links that identify it. Use it to record the work in an app, a catalogue or a database.

      In numbers

      A few figures about this work and its artist, from our catalogue and our visitors.

      • 21.3 megapixels in our source image of this work
      • 2021 the year this work entered the public domain
      • 66 the age of Max Beckmann when this work was painted

      Have it made for your wall

      Three ways to own it, from a print to a painting.

      Social crops

      The artwork re-cropped to each platform format. Use it to post today without opening an image editor.

        Each crop downloads as a single JPEG file.

        Wallpapers

        Screen-fitted versions for the devices you actually use. Use it to put the painting on your screen in one click.

          Detail crops

          Close-ups of the surface, each downloadable on its own. Use it to study the brushwork, or to check that the source file really is high resolution.

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          Hand-painted oil painting

          The same image, hand-painted in oil

          Painted entirely by hand by a trained artist, brushstroke by brushstroke, at the size you choose. No printing is involved: the result has the texture and depth of a real painting.

          • Real oil paint on linen canvas
          • Any size, rolled, stretched or in a solid wood frame
          • A photo of the finished painting is sent for your approval before it ships
          • Painted in 2 to 4 weeks, free shipping worldwide
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          Fine-art print

          The same image as a fine-art print

          Printed from our high-resolution source file for this artwork, with vivid, faithful colour. The faster, lower-budget way to bring it home.

          • Printed on cotton canvas or Epson archival canvas paper
          • Archival inks rated to last 75 to 100 years
          • Any size, rolled, stretched or in a solid wood frame
          • Ships in 7 to 10 business days
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