The Spiral Muse

Black and Gold Wall Art

A woman with black curls and pale grey eyes looks out from the right, while on the left huge spirals of gold and black stripes curl through a dark ground scattered with gold and white dots.

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Made for a modern living room, a dark dining room or a hallway, it looks sharp above a sofa or a console and graphic on a Samsung Frame or 4K TV.

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Print file€9.997680 × 4320 · prints to 65 cm4K TV pack€19.99Samsung Frame & any 4K TV

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Print file: 7,680 × 4,320 px — sharp to about 65 cm wide at 300 dpi
4K TV pack: 3840 × 2160 for the Samsung Frame and 4K TVs, plus 2560 × 1440 and 1920 × 1080
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Print file: 7,680 × 4,320 px — sharp to about 65 cm wide at 300 dpi
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 4K TV or Samsung Frame

This work is drawn for screens: the 4K TV pack holds 3840 × 2160 for the Samsung Frame and other 4K TVs, plus 2560 × 1440 and 1920 × 1080 for older sets, monitors and digital frames. The picture fills the screen edge to edge, so no mat is needed. All about 4K TV art →

The Spiral Muse — 4K TV art, 3840 × 2160

How large can I print it?

The print file is 7,680 × 4,320 px. That prints crisply to about 65 × 37 cm at gallery quality, and to about 130 × 73 cm at the distance you look at a picture over a sofa. 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

The picture is split into two moods. On the right, a woman with black curls and pale grey eyes looks out calmly. On the left, huge spirals made of gold and black stripes curl through a dark ground, which is scattered with gold and white dots like a night sky. The spirals almost seem to grow out of her hair, turning the portrait into pure graphic energy.

Black and gold have been a classic pairing for centuries. Japanese lacquerware, with gold dusted onto black, was admired in Vienna around 1900, and the city's designers loved the same sharp contrast in their furniture, posters and jewellery. A generation later Art Deco took black and gold into hotels, cinemas and ocean liners. The Spiral Muse draws on that heritage and on Klimt's love of the spiral, but it is an original picture with its own bold rhythm.

This is a piece for rooms that like contrast: charcoal, white, deep green or oxblood walls, black metal and brass, velvet and marble. Its horizontal format sits well above a sofa, a sideboard or a bar cabinet, and on a Samsung Frame or 4K TV the black background blends into the screen while the gold spirals stand out. For a purely abstract partner in the same palette, pair it with The Golden Spiral.

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