Category: Artists

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 ...

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

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 ...

Victor Tardieu (France, 1870-1937) in his residence, Hanoi, circa 1928. The most beautiful epics are always the result of chance and necessity.  Tardieu is no exception to the rule. When he arrives in Hanoi on 2 February 1921, a 50-year-old man who, the previous year, just received the Prix de l’Indochine. This Prize was the ...

Mr Jean-François Hubert, Senior Expert, Vietnamese Art and Nguyen Anh (Vietnam, 1914-2000), Paris, 1992.

Nguyen Anh (Vietnam, 1914-2000), Paris, 1992. Courtesy Mr Jean-François Hubert, Senior Expert, Vietnamese Art. Known as Nguyen Van Anh (Vietnam, 1914-2000), he graduated from the painting and modelling section of the École des Beaux-Arts in Hanoi in 1935. His teachers included Victor Tardieu (France, 1870-1937), Joseph Inguimberty (France, 1896-1971), Le Pho (Vietnam, 1907-2001) and Georges ...