Le Pho «View From The Hilltop» – 1937
Le Pho is widely regarded as one of the greatest Vietnamese painters of the 20th century. After returning to Vietnam…
Le Pho : the emancipated confucian
The representation of a couple remains rare in the work of Le Pho. Himself an orphan at a very young…
Nguyen Phan Chanh: “The Child with the Bird”
When Jean Tardieu, Victor’s son, received a request to write an article for the special issue ‘Christmas 1932’ of ‘L’Illustration’…
Vu Cao Dam : painter or sculptor ?
Painter or sculptor ? Vu Cao Dam was both, splitting his activity between two representations, one three dimensional as for…
The Young Lady of Hue – A masterpiece by Mai Thu
Love is always a betrayal. To think it takes courage, to know it requires experience and to paint it demands…
Le Pho : The Lady With Custard Apples or humanisation of the sacred
The painting we are proud to present here is clearly an extraordinary work : a milestone in the master painter’s…
Late Afternoon Chimes: a masterwork of Vietnamese painting by Luong Xuan Nhi
Luong Xuan Nhi holds a prominent place within XXth century pictorial vietnamese school: he was a graduate from the Hanoi…
The quest for authentification in Vietnamese paintings. Example from Le Van De – Lady of Hue
The painter : Le Van De is a painter born in Ben Tre, south of Saigon. A significant detail considering…
« Woman With a Pineapple » Joseph Inguimberty
When Joseph Inguimberty arrived in Vietnam in 1925, could he possibly imagine that twenty years later he would have achieved…
« La jeune fille au perroquet », 1933. A milestone in Nguyen Phan Chanh’s works
In 1933, Nguyen Phan Chanh already had a connection with his audience : first in Vietnam since 1929, through the…