Birds on a Branch by WANTANABE SEITEI Size:S - 30 x 40cm The painting communicates that rare

The painting communicates that rare feeling of being absorbed by a landscape rather than simply observing it

The warm gold and sage palette feels simultaneously decorative and refined

connected by bridges rendered in the thinnest

Ana Rut Bre layers vibrant hues across clean shapes

Kirchner's characteristic handling — slashing brushwork

Birds on a Branch by WANTANABE SEITEI Size:S - 30 x 40cm The painting communicates that rareBirds on a Branch shows a pair of birds perched together, rendered in the kach ga (bird and flower) tradition of Watanabe Seitei. A Meiji era Japanese painter, Seitei blended Western naturalism with the delicate coloring of the Kikuchi Ysai school, and was among the first Japanese artists recognised in Europe, winning a medal at the 1878 Paris International Exhibition. The quiet, closely observed composition is typical of his refined bird and flower