Olive Tree Size:S - 29.7 x 42cm (A3) characteristic of the early 20th-century

characteristic of the early 20th-century Japanese printmaking revival that sought beauty in fleeting

and entirely itself

Bodart's illustration approach distils the building's complex exposed framework into confident geometric forms

It belongs firmly to the early 20th-century Japanese landscape tradition: stillness rendered with precision

the visual noise of a real market distilled into something calm and celebratory

Olive Tree Size:S - 29.7 x 42cm (A3) characteristic of the early 20th-centuryOlive Tree presents an antique botanical study of Olea europaea in the measured, descriptive style of 19th century natural history illustration. The plate arranges branch, leaf, blossom, and fruit within a single upright composition, each element depicted with careful observation of form and surface. Tone is applied with restraint soft ochres and dusty greens that feel true to the Mediterranean light the olive inhabits. The work belongs to a tradition