“CHICKENS UNDER THE VIETNAMESE LUFFA TRELLIS” – NGUYỄN HUYẾN (1915-1984)

According to the person who had kept it, this painting was exhibited in the 1960s in Beijing, China, on the occasion of the anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Vietnam and China. Nguyễn Huyến is a painter with many achievements. He is a person with great energy in working and creating with a treasure trove of hundreds of works including materials such as lacquer, oil, silk, watercolor, charcoal with rich themes. His most recognized material is lacquer with the technique of a master and freedom in expression but very meticulous in finishing details. A flock of chickens including a mother hen and chicks are looking for food under a trellis of Vietnamese luffa with many blooming yellow buds. A peaceful, warm scene typical of our homeland in the North that all of us have lived in or seen somewhere in books, in movies, even in our childhood textbooks. It seems that somewhere we can still hear the chirping of chicks, the clucking of mother hens calling their chicks affectionately. All of it seems to be somewhere in the head are the word homeland.

Nguyễn Huyến (1915-1984)
“Chickens under the Vietnamese luffa trellis”
Lacquer
Signed and dated in the lower left corner
56 × 49 cm