Chinese Bird and Flower Painting Van Gogh This view radiates warmth and

This view radiates warmth and the lingering peace of a perfect evening in the south of France

The painterly brushwork softens each flower spike into a haze of mauve

golden light and shallow focus give the whole image the relaxed

some barely suggested

The painting honours the gentle pull of riverside nature and the calm of a sheltered backwater

Chinese Bird and Flower Painting Van Gogh This view radiates warmth andA crested turquoise bird alights on a gnarled blossom branch, its long tail feathers sweeping across the composition in ribbons of jade and peacock blue. Coral and ivory flowers crowd the twisting bough, painted petal by petal against a soft ochre ground that glows like aged silk. The wing lifts in a fan of pointed plumes, caught mid beat, while fine ink lines trace the dark bark and the smallest buds scattered along the branch tips. Delicate washes