Japanese Bamboo by Yamamoto Baiitsu Bottom Size:M - 50 x 70cm The silhouettes are clean and

The silhouettes are clean and confident

its pale light rippling across dark water and casting long shadows through bare branches

avoiding the garish in favour of something genuinely lush

Fille assise à table presents an intimate interior scene in Matisse's warmly observed figurative manner — a seated girl at a table

letting the expressive intensity read exactly as intended — nothing softened

Japanese Bamboo by Yamamoto Baiitsu Bottom Size:M - 50 x 70cm The silhouettes are clean andJapanese Bamboo reflects the bird and flower painting tradition of Yamamoto Baiitsu, one of the most highly regarded Nanga (literati) painters of the Edo period, working from the Owari domain. Baiitsu combined ink wash with delicate colour washes and elegant, sinuous contours a style so accomplished that two of his works have since been designated Important Cultural Properties in Japan. Bamboo, a recurring literati subject, is rendered here with