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Chicken on the Bayou
\n<\/i><\/b><\/span>1986 by George Rodrigue
\n<\/span>Approximate size, 24 x 36 inches
\n<\/span>Oil on canvas
\n<\/span>Signed by the artist<\/p>\n

Contact gallery for pricing.<\/a>\u00a0 Availability subject to change without notice.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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“So fond was the Landry Family of their chicken, Clotile, that they commissioned this portrait of her. I call it…The Two Hundred Pound Chicken on the Bayou!” — G.R.<\/p>\n

The larger-than-life chicken has been pushed to the front of the canvas, and just like Rodrigue\u2019s human figures, the bird is locked into the landscape by the tree trunk behind it. Standing on the dock, the chicken calls to mind later images of the Blue Dog, first done two years prior to this painting, and adds a whimsical element to the landscape. Like many of Rodrigue\u2019s paintings, the river or pathway functions as a compositional device but can be hard to decipher as one or the other, much like Louisiana\u2019s landscape is often a confusing maze of land and water. The inclusion of the dock in this painting indicates that Rodrigue intended this image to be of a river.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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