Maria Mộng Hoa (1913–1986) [Vietnamese] Landscape with Banana Trees, 1940 Watercolor on paper. Signed and dated lower left. An illegible inscription, partially erased, lower right. Various pencil inscriptions on the reverse. 29 x 23.3 cm (image size) Framed under glass. Depicting a rural landscape of the Huế region, enlivened in the foreground by tall banana trees and dense vegetation, with trees and mountainous terrain in the background. Maria Mộng Hoa (1913–1986), whose real name was Nguyễn Thị Phi Phụng, came from a family of painters in Huế; she was the daughter of the painter Nguyễn Khắc Nhân and the sister of the painters Nguyễn Phi Hổ, Nguyễn Phi Long, and Nguyễn Phi Hùng. She won a gold medal at the Huế Fine Arts Exhibition in 1931 and participated in 1935 in an exhibition organized in Huế by the French authorities and the Nguyễn court.