Return to a poem written by Nguyen Phan Chanh for « La Marchande de Oc », 1929
The “Marchande de oc‘” is, subject to inventory, the first gouache and ink on silk executed by Nguyen Phan Chanh. …
Do Duc Thuan : « Port On The Red River », 1933, or a little turn and then goes away?
Born in 1898 in Hanoi, on Takou Street, Do Duc Thuan came from a traditional Confucian family. Little is known…
Nguyen Phan Chanh, 1932, « La Marchande de Riz »
Nguyen Phan Chanh’s early works are considered to be icons of Vietnamese art. Some of the most widely acknowledged include:…
Nguyen Phan Chanh, 1931, « La Couture », or the feeling of the gesture must be the gesture of the feeling
The Paris Colonial Exhibition, which closed on November 15, 1931, allowed Victor Tardieu’s School of Fine Arts to acquire an…
Le Pho, ” La Femme du Mandarin (The Mandarin’s Wife), 1931, or a vehement impassivity
Every great painter has his emblematic work. Among many others, Guernica for Picasso, Le déjeuner sur l’herbe for Manet, David…
Le Pho, « The Bath », circa 1938, or the instrumentalization of the nude
“Le Bain” (The Bath) by Le Pho, an exquisite gouache and ink on silk (39×40 cm), is one of the painter’s…
To Ngoc Van, 1942 « The Young Woman » or the certainty of truth
When To Ngoc Van painted this picture, he was 36 years old and had an accomplished social life: a graduate…
Nguyen Phan Chanh, 1932, « The Sugar Cane Merchant », or the serenity of the truth
Our painting is part of the artist’s exceptional period of creation from 1929 to the year 1933. In 1932, Nguyen…
Bui Xuan Phai, 1971, the « Portrait Of Tran Quy Thinh » or the Tran Dan’s victory over To Huu
Much has been already written about Bui Xuan Phai (1920-1988). Not the essential as censorship has been strong there and…
Mai Trung Thu, 1942, “The Family” or the pretext of Confucianism
This large (46 x 60 cm) and beautiful gouache and ink on silk belongs to a series of works created…