Mother and Child (Vietnames: Mẹ Con)

Southeast Asian Collection

Accession Nr.: 76.11.1
Type: painting; print; woodblock print
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Date of production:
1961
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Materials/Techniques: paper, coloured woodblock print, partly hand-coloured
Dimensions: length: 43 cm
width: 32 cm
Also associated with the Vietnamese Tet (Lunar New Year) festival, the work was created by Vietnamese artist Nguyễn Thụ, one of the most important artists of twentieth-century Vietnamese art and a former student of the first class of the Hanoi College of Fine Arts. The engraving shown in this photo is the 4th piece in his series.