TRẦN PHÚC DUYÊN (1923-1993)
Artwork: ‘In harmony III’
Date: 1978-1980
Medium: Lacquer, two panels
Dimensions: 112 × 134 cm
Artist Trần Phúc Duyên (1923-1993): Born in Hà Nội; Originally from Phượng Dực, Phú Xuyên, Hà Tây. He was in class XVI of Indochina Fine Arts College (enrolled in 1942, ended on March 9, 1945) with Võ Lăng, Đinh Minh, Phan Thông, Quang Phòng…
In 1945-1954, he opened a painting studio at 146 Avenue de Grand Buddha (Quán Thánh street). In 1954, he went to France. In 1968, he moved to Switzerland.
The work ‘In harmony III’ was created around 1978-1980, and is in the collection of Phạm Đạt and Lê Quang Vinh family (Phạm Lê). The painting has been printed in the book “Duyên – Realism, Abstraction, Zen Painting”, Thế Giới Publishing House, 2024.
Trần Phúc Duyên is an artist of the inner self, of romanticism, lyricism, and poetry. His works all aim for beauty and goodness from content to form. Throughout, there is a passionate love for his homeland.
‘In harmony III’ is one of Trần Phúc Duyên’s most successful lacquer paintings on the subject of women. His memories of people and his homeland seem to had lingered since the time he settled in France. Therefore, even though he created them several decades later, the images of people are always the images he had seen in the peaceful, gentle, dreamy past.
François Cheng, writer, poet, member of the French Academy wrote about him as follows: “Underneath the layers of paint, a deep soul whispers to us about the images of dreams.”
That is the dream of Trần Phúc Duyên’s homeland.
Viet Art View would like to thank Phạm Đạt and Lê Quang Vinh family for allowing us to use the image of the work.
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