Category: Artists
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...