Garden in the Fall

The fourth work in the Garden in the Fall series completes Hao Boyi's extended study of the autumn garden subject. Across four prints treating the same seasonal subject, an artist typically exhausts compositional possibilities — moving between panoramic and intimate views, between morning and afternoon light conditions, between different plant selections. This version may reflect the latest moment in the seasonal progression, with some plants past peak color and beginning to decline, introducing greater tonal variety and a more complex pictorial surface. The cumulative series demonstrates a characteristic feature of Beidahuang printmaking practice: sustained, methodical engagement with a single natural subject, understood as a site of formal and philosophical investigation rather than a fixed image to be resolved in a single work.