Farmhouse in Upper Austria by Gustav Klimt Maira Ribena Archival pigment inks and the

Archival pigment inks and the warmth of the canvas surface give Hu's final chapter the depth and presence it deserves

every line and colour gradient in this illustration is rendered with crisp clarity

Working in the spirit of 19th-century zoological illustration

the composition uses minimal mark-making to hold an entire emotional register

Farmhouse in Upper Austria by Gustav Klimt Maira Ribena Archival pigment inks and theFarmhouse in Upper Austria belongs to the series of summer landscapes Klimt painted away from Vienna quiet, frontal, almost meditative. The farmhouse sits flush with the picture plane, surrounded by a dense pattern of foliage that dissolves architecture into nature. There is no drama, no narrative: only the steady, absorbing attention of a painter finding freedom in the rural and the ordinary, rendered in his signature mosaic like touch. As a canvas