Arnold Bocklin painted Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle in 1872. A skeleton appears over Bocklin's shoulder, playing a violin into his ear while he listens and paints. It is both a memento mori in the medieval tradition and a self-aware joke: the artist working with death as his accompanist. Bocklin was a Swiss Symbolist painter working in Rome and Munich. The painting is at the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin. About this diptych

Format: Two decks mounted side by side, each standing vertically — one continuous composition across 45 x 85 cm

Material: Grade-A 7-ply Canadian maple — the same wood used in professional skate decks

Print: Gallery-quality UV print — no glass needed

Mounting hardware not included — purchase separately

Ships from Berlin — worldwide delivery in protective packaging

See all two-panel diptych sets or three-panel triptychs (70 x 85 cm).