Joan Yip
Senior Specialist
Lot 37
Nguyen Huyen(Vietnamese, 1915-1994)Paysage
21 – 27 June 2024, 12:00 CEST
Online, Paris, avenue Hoche€6,000 - €8,000
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Nguyen Huyen (Vietnamese, 1915-1994)
Paysage
1944
signée et datée huyên 1944 (en bas à gauche)
huile sur toile
signed and dated huyên 1944 (lower left)
oil on canvas
54 x 83 cm (21 1/4 x 32 5/8 in)
1944
signée et datée huyên 1944 (en bas à gauche)
huile sur toile
signed and dated huyên 1944 (lower left)
oil on canvas
54 x 83 cm (21 1/4 x 32 5/8 in)
Footnotes
Graduating from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de l'Indochine in 1936, Nguyen Huyen was a co-founder of the Vietnam Fine Arts Association and is known for his iconic work, featured on the 100 dong banknote issued in 1946. It depicts a farmer working in a field alongside an eye-catching blue buffalo, and it was chosen for the note to represent Vietnamese agriculture and production.
As a student of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de l'Indochine, he learnt the techniques of European oil painting, which he skillfully used to interpret Vietnamese landscapes with an Impressionist-influenced colour palette.