Category: Artists

Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Huynh

Portrait of Japanese Painter Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita (Japan-France, 1886-1968) photographed by Pierre Vauthey. Portrait de Jeune Fille à Hanoi (Portrait of a Young Girl in Hanoi) is one of Foujita's masterpieces illustrating the beauty of a Vietnamese lady. After having studied Western-style painting in Japan, Foujita travelled to Paris, where he encountered the international modern ...

Mai Trung Thu at his atelier in Vanves, France

Portrait of Mai Trung Thu

Tran Van Can, Tham Duc Tu, Mai Van Hien, Le Cong Thanh, and Pham Van Don at a children's painting and sculpture exhibition, around 1970-1980

General Vo Nguyen Giap (Vietnam, 1911-2013) and the Vietnamese Fine Arts Delegation on a business trip in the Soviet Union around 1958-1959; standing from left to right: Mai Van Hien, X, X, To Huu, Phan Ke An, Diep Minh Chau and seated from left to right: Tran Van Can, Vo Nguyen Giap, Luong Xuan Nhi.

Mai Trung Thu depicting his work Nu (Nude) at his atelier. Mai Trung Thu (1906-1980)'s Nu (Nude), 1970, ink and gouache on silk, 47 x 70 cm. (18 1/2 x 27 1/2 in.)

Albert Cézard (France, 1869-circa 1916) in his atelier in Hanoi. Albert Cézard and his friend Albert de Pouvourville, a French orientalist, mystic, author, poet, and translator, had a shared soft spot for Indochina, not that Indochina of the splendour of colonisation but the Indochina of the heart, that of emotions. Albert de Pouvourville, a French ...

Mai Van Hien (Vietnam, 1923-2006), Unknown, Bui Xuan Phai (Vietnam, 1920-1988) (left to right).

Christie's Paris is privileged to present a photograph of the passing collector - a long-life friend of Le Pho, Le Pho and the artist's friend Mr Hop in the 1950s. The collector owned both the photograph and a very rare work ‘Portrait d’un ami d’enfance’ by Le Pho (Vietnam/France, 1907-2001), offered and auctioned at Art ...