Keika hyakugiku Pl.23 by Keika Hosegawa Size:L - 70 x 100.0cm flat foliage and wide-eyed animal

flat foliage and wide-eyed animal figures are framed by bold typography that announces the work as worthy of institutional attention — a fitting tribute to a painter who spent decades outside the establishment before being recognized

Retrodrome distils that legend into a bold

the poster's crisp geometry and layered colour blocks are reproduced with complete fidelity

The white ground gives each form room to breathe

faded lens of historical cartography

Keika hyakugiku Pl.23 by Keika Hosegawa Size:L - 70 x 100.0cm flat foliage and wide-eyed animalPlate 23 isolates a large headed, incurving chrysanthemum cultivar whose petals fold inward at their tips, creating a dome like bloom of remarkable visual density. Hasegawa structures the composition so that the flower occupies the full width of the frame at its widest point, giving it a quiet monumentality despite the modest scale of the original plate. The ink work is exceptionally fine individual petals are delineated with hair thin lines that