NGUYEN PHANH CHANH (Vietnam 1892-1984)

The musicians

細節

NGUYEN PHANH CHANH (Vietnam 1892-1984)
The musicians
signed, dated and inscribed in Chinese 'Nguyen Phanh Chanh, 1929' and stamped with the artist's seal (upper right)
ink and gouache on silk
26 x 20 in. (66 x 50 cm.)

來源

The work was acquired directly from the artist in Vietnam in 1930 and thence by descent from the same family to the present owner.

拍品專文

In 1922, the artist graduated from the Dong Ba Teachers Training college in Hue and stayed on in the school to take on teaching position. The work which is dated 1929 is an extremely early work of the artist which he used very little colours and adopted a personal style on Van Nam silk, which created a serene composition with dominant grey and brown shades, that the French called "clair-obscur". Phanh Chanh's early works are extremely rare.