Poppies - Katsushika Hokusai

The artwork

Bring into your home the timeless elegance of Katsushika Hokusai's Poppies, one of the most poetic floral depictions in Japanese art. This reproduction on fine Amalfi paper enhances every detail of the original woodblock, turning your wall into a focal point of light and colour. The fine lines and refined tones of the poppies create an atmosphere of contemplative calm, ideal for a study, living room or bedroom. Choosing Hokusai's Poppies means adding to your collection an iconic work that unites aesthetic taste, art history and lasting decorative value.

Katsushika Hokusai's Poppies belong to the famous “Large Flowers” series, made in the Edo period between the late 1820s and the early 1830s. In these woodblock prints the Japanese artist focuses on a few botanical elements, enlarged and isolated against an essential background to exalt the rhythm of the lines and the strength of the colour. In the Poppies, the corollas quiver as if stirred by the wind, while the sinuous stems create a dynamic, asymmetrical composition typical of Hokusai's sensibility. This image, born as an ukiyo-e print intended for cultured and decorative circulation, is today considered a masterpiece of the dialogue between naturalistic observation and formal abstraction. Bringing home a reproduction of Hokusai's Poppies thus means welcoming an authentic fragment of 19th-century Japanese visual culture.

Unique quality material

Print on handmade Amalfi paper
Sheet size: 29 x 42 cm (11.4 x 16.5 in)
With frame: 31 x 44 cm (12.2 x 17.3 in)
Material: artwork printed on very fine handmade Amalfi paper with deckled edges
Frame: light brown beech wood and wood pulp, handmade