Category: Documentaries

Christie's official letter of invitation to the very first Southeast Asian Pictures Preview of Christie's Singapore at Christie's Paris, featuring a selection of highlights from the upcoming Singapore auction on 3 October 1999 at 6 rue Paul Baudry, 75008 Paris between 6th to 8th of September. The specialist of the Southeast Asian Pictures Department, Ms ...

Nguyen Thi Hau in Ngay Nay, Issue No. 1, 30 January 1935. Known as "the very first lady to have the latest Lemur clothing on", she later became a lawyer and mayor of Da Lat (1965-1966). She was the only female mayor in Vietnam's political history at that time. Promoted, worn, assumed, Cat Tuong’s ao ...

Around La Rotonde, Montparnasse, Paris, circa 1905.

Around La Coupole, Montparnasse, Paris, 1939. Photographed by Photographer Pierre Jahan (France, 1909-2003)

Moïse Kisling (Poland/France, 1891-1953) on left and Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973) photographed by Jean Cocteau (France, 1889-1963), Montparnasse, Paris, 1916.

Entrance to the Salon 1937, Annamite society of encouragement for the arts and industry according to a project of architect Hoang Nhu Tiep (Vietnamese, 1910-1982)

Exposition at the École des Beaux-Arts de l'Indochine (The School of Fine Arts of Indochina), Hanoi, November 1929

A work of oil on canvas in process of being finalized by Nguyen Trung (Vietnam, B. 1940) at his studio in Saigon, 14 November 2022

La Closerie des Lilas, Montparnasse, Paris, in the 70’s. All the Vietnamese artists used to meet there. Montparnasse, or more precisely the crossroads Montparnasse-Vavin-Raspail, was the centre of the world. All was audacious there.

La Coupole, Montparnasse, Paris, between the two wars. It was in the cafés of Montparnasse – which replaced Montmartre at the beginning of the century – that the world history of art was written in those years. What triumphed there, to an ever greater extent than spirit, was culture. A culture created by an extreme ...