The Golden Christmas Tree, Christmas in Gold collection — gold wall art by RAGANA Design
The Golden Christmas Tree — framed on a wall
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CHRISTMAS IN GOLD

The Golden Christmas Tree

Klimt Reimagined for Christmas

A Christmas tree built entirely from Klimt’s golden spirals, crowned with a radiant star, on a deep fir-green ground dusted with tiny gold stars.

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No baubles, no tinsel — just spiral after spiral of gold, the motif Klimt used for life that keeps unfolding. Elegant over a sideboard, in a hallway or as a Christmas gift that stays up all winter.

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  • Printable digital download, around 9,000 px on the long edge
  • Samsung Frame TV version included (3840 × 2160)
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Golden Christmas: The Golden Christmas Tree, The Golden Christmas Wreath & Robins and Holly framed side by side – set of 3 printable wall art by RAGANA Design
Set of 3 · Golden Christmas

This work together with The Golden Christmas Wreath and Robins and Holly — a Klimt spiral tree, a gilded wreath and William Morris robins — fir green and gold for the holidays.

Buy all three · €19.99
Separately 3 × €9.99 = €29.97
Commercial licence for one venue: €199.99 for all three →
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Details
  • Printable digital download, around 9,000 px on the long edge
  • The commercial licence covers hotels, offices, restaurants and public spaces
  • Print it yourself at any size, on metal, acrylic, glass or fine-art paper
On a Samsung Frame TV

Every download also includes a 3840 × 2160 file made for the Samsung Frame and other art-mode TVs: the whole work, uncropped, on a quiet mat in a colour taken from the picture. Send it to the TV with the SmartThings app and show it in Art Mode. All Frame TV art →

The Golden Christmas Tree — Samsung Frame TV art, 3840 × 2160
How large can I print it?

The file is around 9,000 px on the long edge. That prints crisply to about 75 cm on the long edge at gallery quality, and to 130–170 cm at the distance you look at a picture over furniture. Sizes, paper and framing, in detail →

Which paper or surface?

Gold on dark grounds wants a matte or satin fine-art paper (200–310 gsm), or aluminium for humid rooms; glossy photo paper turns the black into a mirror. The pale works also take satin and baryta papers.

Which licence do I need?

Personal (€9.99) covers your own home and gifts. Any business or space open to the public — a spa, clinic, hotel, office, restaurant — needs the commercial licence (€99.99, one venue, no renewal). The venue guide →

How big, and how high, on my wall?

Width of the furniture beneath divided by 1.618; centre of the picture at 150 cm from the floor. How to hang wall art using the golden ratio →

About this work

There are no baubles and no tinsel. The tree is built entirely from golden spirals, stacked into the familiar triangle, and a radiant star crowns the top. The ground is a deep fir green dusted with tiny gold stars, so the whole picture has the hush of a winter night.

Decorated evergreen trees were a German custom by the sixteenth century, and the habit spread across Europe and beyond in the nineteenth, helped in Britain by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. A green tree in midwinter stands for life that continues through the dark season, and the star at the top recalls the Star of Bethlehem. Gustav Klimt used the spiral in his Tree of Life for the Stoclet Frieze in Brussels as a sign of life unfolding. This is a reimagining in gold that brings those two trees together.

It is elegant above a sideboard, in a hallway or near the front door, and because it avoids obvious decorations it can stay up all winter. Dark green, deep red or warm cream walls suit it. It forms the set Golden Christmas with The Golden Christmas Wreath and Robins and Holly, fir green and gold for the holidays. At about 9,000 px on the long edge it prints sharply to roughly 76 cm at 300 dpi.

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FURTHER READING
Christmas wall decor ideas that look elegant, not clutteredGuideFamous Christmas paintings, and how Christmas art beganGuideGold and darkness: why quiet rooms need contrastJournal