Famous Paintings on Canvas

Four works that have passed into the public domain and are reproduced here on canvas: Van Gogh's Almond Blossom, Monet's Water Lilies, Hokusai's Great Wave off Kanagawa and Kandinsky's Composition VIII.

They suit different rooms. Almond Blossom and Water Lilies are quiet and cool and tend to go in a bedroom; the Great Wave and Composition VIII are high-contrast and graphic, which is why they more often end up in a study, a home office or a stairwell.

Every work here is in the public domain, which is the only reason we can print it. We source the highest-resolution scan a museum has released, correct for the yellowing of old varnish where the museum's own notes support it, and print at a size where the brushwork is still visible rather than smoothed into a poster. What arrives is a reproduction and says so — not a claim to be anything else.

Printed on cotton canvas and gallery-wrapped over a wooden frame, so the image wraps the edges and the piece hangs as it arrives.