Category: Artists

Portrait of Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) in his residence Domaine des Collettes in Cagnes sur Mer (Alpes-Maritimes), France circa 1907.

French Impressionist artist, Claude Monet (1840–1926), notably known for his masterpieces and his garden at Giverny, worked on and developed the garden that is the subject of the painting from the end of 1883 until the end of his life. During the last two decades of his career, Monet devoted himself single-mindedly to painting the ...

Nguyen Trung (Vietnam, B. 1940) finalizing his lacquer Ladies in the Peach Garden at Boi Tran Garden, Thien An Hill, Hue, 1 September 2006.

Nguyen Trung (Vietnam, B. 1940) executing his oil on canvas Hair Tightening at Boi Tran Garden, Hue, 18 July 2009.

Nguyen Trung (Vietnam, B. 1940) at Boi Tran Garden, Hue, 1 January 2006.

Vu Cao Dam (Vietnam, 1908-2000) and Mai Trung Thu (Vietnam, 1906-1980) in the apartment, Avenue de Saxe, Paris, 1938.

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 ...

Mai Trung Thu (Vietnam, 1906-1980), a member of the first class of the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de l'Indo-chine in Hanoi along with Le Pho. During his education, he developed a painting style in which he painted on silk, organizing areas of bold colours into defined areas of highlight and shadow. Mai Trung Thu's early ...

Maurice Denis (France, 1870-1943) studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Académie Julian, and through fellow student, Paul Sérusier learned of the innovative stylistic movement developed by Paul Gauguin and Emile Bernard in Pont-Aven in the summer of 1888. With Sérusier and a number of like-minded contemporaries at the Académie Julian such as Pierre ...

Le Pho (Vietnam, 1907-2001) was the tenth child in a family of twenty fathered by the senior mandarin Le Hoan. Because of his father's status, he received a cultured education, including training in brush painting. At age 18, he was admitted into the first class of students to attend the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Hanoi ...