Green Peacock by Koson Size:L - 70 x 100.0cm Wave and boat with Mount

Wave and boat with Mount Fuji depicts the dramatic coastline at Satta in Suruga Province

La Belle Dame Sans Merci exemplifies George Barbier's mastery of Art Deco illustration at its most seductive

painted in the last moments before full sunrise

while the cool

Green Peacock by Koson Size:L - 70 x 100.0cm Wave and boat with MountOhara Koson renders the peacock with the disciplined elegance that defines the kacho e tradition. The bird's iridescent plumage a sweep of layered greens and blues is rendered in careful gradation, each feather articulated with the kind of linework that only a practised hand can sustain. The composition is asymmetric in the classical Japanese sense: the peacock positioned to create tension with empty space, the background stripped back to let colour