Keika hyakugiku Pl.24 by Keika Hosegawa Odilon Redon every line and colour gradient

every line and colour gradient is rendered with exceptional sharpness and clarity

The wide format emphasises the scale of the landscape and the solitary grandeur of Fuji against a luminous horizon

Bodart layers bold

making this as much a work of decorative craft as of scientific record

The palette moves from cool deep-sea blues into warm pinks and purples

Keika hyakugiku Pl.24 by Keika Hosegawa Odilon Redon every line and colour gradientPlate 24 closes out a group of closely related cultivars in Hasegawa's series with a bloom of pronounced elegance: long, slender petals curve upward and inward with a tulip like refinement quite distinct from the broader, flatter forms seen elsewhere in the sequence. The composition is unusually vertical, the flower's height exaggerated by the elongated stem and minimal foliage, producing a strong upward visual rhythm. A dusty rose palette rendered in