« Nostalgie du Haut-Tonkin » & « Les Élégantes », 1968, two masterworks by Nguyen Gia Tri
The « Nostalgie du Haut Tonkin » (“Nostalgia for Highland Tonkin”) and « Les Élégantes » (“The Elegant”) are lacquers, an art form unique…
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The « Nostalgie du Haut Tonkin » (“Nostalgia for Highland Tonkin”) and « Les Élégantes » (“The Elegant”) are lacquers, an art form unique…
This series of nine watercolors is absolutely unique in Vietnamese painting: they can be dated around 1930-1935 when the painter…
Certainly, the history of 20th century Vietnamese painting must be clearly described – in artistic terms – by referring to…
Joseph Inguimberty had been teaching at the Fine Arts School of Hanoi for fifteen years when he started on this…
The artwork we proudly present here is a magnificent and seductive lacquer on board. It distinguishes itself not only because…
Born in 1908 in Hadong, near Hanoi in northern Vietnam, Nguyen Gia Trí, the leading artist in Vietnamese lacquer, is…
There is no place without a history.There is no history without a place.There are places without measure, and histories beyond…
An exceptional diptych lacquer work in terms of its theme, technique and narrative, Tran Dzu Hong needed two full years…
In this rare silk, the confined atmosphere, austere and yet so typical of the old Hue is well described: one gets dressed, the makeup is on to keep up with the social rank: everything is duty with no pleasure;
Just exactly what do you know about a person? His life? It is simply what you find out about the…