Category: Photographs

Dorothea Lange's iconic 1936 photograph of Florence Owens Thompson, Migrant Mother Dorothea Lange (America, 1895–1965) Migrant Mother 28.3 cm × 21.8 cm (11.1 in × 8.6 in) 1936 Collection of Museum of Modern Art, New York In 1936, the photographer worked for the Farm Security Administration. At the request of the Roosevelt government, she took documentary photographs to document farmers' poverty during ...

Photographer Jean Baptiste Huynh's Message to Bem from Paris before his solo exhibition EDEN “Dear Bem, Jean Baptiste Nice to what we exchanged through email. This is my latest works that I have done in Africa with the amazing "flower children" and incredible people I lived with. And I really want to invite you to ...

Portrait of Painter Zao Wou-Ki (Chinese, 1920-2013) by Photographer Jean-Baptiste Huynh (France, B. 1966) at the Exposition Zao Wou-Ki: Sur les chemins de la calligraphie, Christie's Paris, 28 April - 3 May 2018. Jean-Baptiste Huynh (France, B. 1966) Portrait de Zao Wou-Ki dans son atelier parisien sign (en bas à droite); dédicacé (en bas à ...

Exposition Zao Wou-Ki: Sur les chemins de la calligraphie, Christie's Paris, 28 April - 3 May 2018. SURPASSING TIME AND CULTURES: THE ART OF ZAO WOU-KI The greatest works of art invite us to delve into such deep and expansive realms that, as the tides of history pass, these masterpieces come to be recognized as ...

Edvard Munch (Norwegian, 1863-1944) in the workshop of his Winter Studio at Ekely in Norway in 1938. Edvard Munch (Norwegian, 1863-1944), the son of Christian Munch, a military doctor, and his wife Laura, spent his childhood in Oslo (formerly Kristiania). His mother died from tuberculosis when he was five years old. Having to stay in bed ...

Henri Matisse (France, 1869-1954) in the room-workshop of the old Régina Hotel on the Cimiez hill in Nice, sitting in his bed following paralysis, drawing the figures of the Vence chapel on the walls with a charcoal attached to a pole; taken by Walter Carone (Italy/France, 1920–1982) in April 1950

Sculptor Évariste Jonchère (France, 1892-1956), who took over the position of Victor Tardieu (France, 1870-1937) as a director of the École des Beaux-Arts de l'Indochine (The School of Fine Arts of Indochina) in Hanoi from 1938 to 1945, receiving the first Grand Prix de Rome for sculpture in Paris, 1925. Photographed for the press by Agence ...

Alix Aymé (France, 1894-1989), the one who awakened the art of lacquer in Vietnam, unveils masterpieces of incredible technical refinement. She began to paint in Paris during the First World War and was a pupil of Maurice Denis. In 1920, she accompanied her husband to Shanghai and then went on to Hanoi, where she taught ...

Born in Phu Luu Village, Tu Son District, Bac Ninh Province in the Red River Delta on 18 February 1912, Hoang Tich Chu (Vietnam, 1912-2003), the first generation, graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts de l'Indochine (The School of Fine Arts of Indochina) in Hanoi in 1941, a year later of his father, Hoang Tich ...

Jean Volang (Vietnam/France, 1921-2005), at the age of 59, a Vietnamese-born contemporary French artist who flew into Sydney to accompany an exhibition of his works showcased at the Sydney Opera House, Exhibition Hall 24 - 31 March 1980. Photo by Trevor James Robert Dallen on 20 March 1980.