What’s the hallway missing? Warm gold with some nerve. This is Monet’s autumn garden yellow leaves, white geese on a pond, a red-roofed house in the distance gatecrashed by a wide-eyed cartoon cat who clearly wasn’t invited.

The room shifts the moment it goes up. Warm browns and gold pull the light around, and the little black cat gives people something to smile at on the way past.

It earns its keep on a hallway wall, in a bright kitchen, or above a console in a family living room. Anywhere a bit of warmth and a bit of wit both belong.

Pair with oak, linen, stoneware and warm cream walls. The matte canvas softens the brushwork and lets the cat’s silhouette pop.

Don’t hang it next to anything that takes itself too seriously the joke needs room to land. Stretched on a wooden frame, ready to hang.