Furu - Pinus silvestris L. by Olaf Alfred Hoffstad Théophile Alexandre Steinlen Negative space plays an active

Negative space plays an active role here — areas of near-white allow the denser graphic passages to breathe

Doudine's precise linework and rich colour relationships are reproduced with clarity and fidelity

neither entirely still nor in motion

This cover design for the Badenummer edition of Lustige Blätter — a leading German satirical magazine — shows Klinger at his most playful and precise

Furu - Pinus silvestris L. by Olaf Alfred Hoffstad Théophile Alexandre Steinlen Negative space plays an activeHoffstad's illustration of Pinus silvestris the Scots pine confronts one of Scandinavian nature's most architecturally complex subjects. The image documents the pine's distinctive features with botanical rigour: needle clusters in paired fascicles, the asymmetric cone, the characteristic bark texture suggested through careful line rather than heavy shading. There is something almost contemplative about the composition the tree reduced to its essential