Le Pho « La Toilette de l’enfant » or “the unreasonable silence of the world”
Two children are depicted with whom we imagine is their mother though we can’t tell for sure. Central to the…
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Two children are depicted with whom we imagine is their mother though we can’t tell for sure. Central to the…
Mai Thu, proud to be Tonkinese, depicts the mountains of the Middle Region in the distance. Set far back in…
“La Pâtisserie” is one of a small group of sublime and very rare works executed by the painter between 1929…
After graduating from the Hanoi School of Fine Arts in 1941, Hoang Tich Chu started a lacquer workshop with his…
In 1970, art critic Waldemar–George (1893-1970) published his eponymous book with the evocative title: ”Le Pho, the divine painter”. In…
It was because he was confident in their talent that, from 1929, Victor Tardieu, the founder (in 1924) of the…
Nudes were rarely painted in the history of Vietnamese Modern Art. The Confucian culture and social mores of the 1930s…
A new “white glove” sale was held at Christie’s in Hong Kong on May 24th (evening sale) and 25th (day…
It is always fascinating to observe in the work of an artist the successive stages of construction (or deconstruction) of…
Nguyen Phan Chanh probably painted Les Teinturières in November 1931, just as the Paris Colonial Exhibition was coming to an…