Hennessy VSOP Privilége Lunar New Year 2023 Year of the Rabbit (Limited Edition)

The Chinese artist Yan Pei-Ming honours the Lunar New Year with a pivotal, monumental painting that illustrates how the inclusiveness of the New Year connects us all. For the first time, in 2023 Hennessy ushers in the Lunar New Year by honouring not just a single, symbolic animal, but the entire Zodiac in all its diversity. "I think, to push the painting to be what I wanted it to be, I needed a much more eternal painting. I've never painted the Chinese Zodiac before; this is the first opportunity that allowed me to do so. So that's it. Instead of doing one year, I did twelve animals to represent twelve years," Yan Pei-Ming says." This painting can live independently; it doesn't represent a specific year. It's a painting that can be shown at any time, place, or country. If you don't know the Chinese Zodiac, it's an autonomous painting, and a painting must be able to exist autonomously, independently," he continues. "The allegory is one of togetherness in diversity: across generations,