Coffee Picking (Vietnamese: Hái cà phê)
Accession Nr.: | 76.12.1 |
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Type: | print; woodblock print |
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ca. 1950−1960
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Materials/Techniques: | paper, coloured woodblock print |
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Dimensions: | height: 37 cm width: 53 cm |
As if we were looking at an excerpt of a photograph, we get a glimpse of how this very important village activity, the coffee harvest, is carried out - as women and girls pick the reddish coffee beans from a ladder under the partial cover of a canopy.
Nguyễn Thụ is one of the most important artists of twentieth-century Vietnamese art, a former student of the first class of the Hanoi College of Fine Arts. The engraving in this photo is the 4th piece in his series.
Nguyễn Thụ is one of the most important artists of twentieth-century Vietnamese art, a former student of the first class of the Hanoi College of Fine Arts. The engraving in this photo is the 4th piece in his series.