Pair of pigeons (Vietnamese: Đôi bồ câu)

Southeast Asian Collection

Accession Nr.: 76.10.1
Type: painting; woodblock print; textile arts
Artist/Maker:
Date of production:
ca. 1959−1969
Place of production:
Signed: G. Huong
Materials/Techniques: paper, silk brocade, coloured woodblock print, partly hand-coloured
Dimensions: height: 53 cm
width: 29 cm
Woodcut of two doves in a wide white brocade frame. The work of the Vietnamese artist and silk painter Vũ Giáng Hương, who comes from a distinguished family of artists. The artist was fond of depicting the lives and daily activities of female resistance fighters and women soldiers during the Vietnam War (1955-1975) years.