Art can hold a memory, mark an occasion or say something personal. Find stories and practical ideas for portraits, prints and gifts chosen for someone in particular.
The first real art on a couple’s walls: Monet’s river, Homer’s coast, Hokusai’s Fuji, a Renoir for the kitchen and a portrait of their first house. Twelve wedding gifts that will outlast the toaster.
A card with a real painting on the front says more than any shop rack can. Here are twelve masterpieces matched to twelve moments, from a birthday bouquet to a quiet pond for a letter of sympathy.
Flowers by Van Gogh, Renoir and Hokusai, gardens by Morisot, and her own dog or cat painted like a Manet: twelve safe and lovely choices for the woman who is hardest to buy for.
Friedrich’s wanderer, Van Gogh’s irises, Seurat’s Grande Jatte, Hilma af Klint’s Ten Largest: fifteen masterpieces from the world’s great museums, each as a print that would make an art lover’s day.
Burne-Jones’s Love Song, Paolo and Francesca in Böcklin’s darkness, a love letter by Harunobu and Cupid by Barocci: fourteen romantic works to give on Valentine’s Day, from tender to tragic.
They have the gadgets, the candles and the cashmere. What they do not have is their cats painted like a Kahler, their greyhound like a Landseer or their house like a Turner. Twelve masterworks behind Fable’s portrait styles.
A Rembrandt for the master of their craft, Monet’s Riviera for the traveller, Homer’s canoe for the fisherman, and a portrait of the home they finally have time for: twelve retirement gifts with meaning.
Canaletto, Constable, Monet, Krøyer and Carl Larsson painted houses as if they were people. Seventeen masterworks behind Fable’s home portrait styles: send a photo of the new house and see it painted the same way.
His dogs painted like a Landseer, his farm like a Constable, his study like a Carl Larsson watercolour: twelve masterworks to give as prints or turn into a portrait from your own photo.