Category: Documentaries

Ms Alida Noordegraaf posing in front of Le Pho’s masterpieces, including La maison familiale au Tonkin (The family home in Tonkin), Femme du Mandarin (The Mandarin’s Wife) and holding Le Pho's Une tasse de thé (A Cup of Tea) at the Vietnamese art exhibition in the Netherlands, 1997.

A handwritten letter of the former Director of Vietnam National Fine Arts Museum (1998-2003) to Boi Tran (Vietnam, B. 1957) "Hue, 14 November 2013 Dear BOI TRAN I, CAO TRONG THIEM, former Director of Vietnam National Fine Arts Museum (1998-2003), came to see you but, unfortunately, failed to meet you! Accompanied by: — Mr PHAN ...

The first banknote sketched by Mai Van Hien (Vietnam, 1923-2006), together with Nguyen Do Cung (Vietnam, 1912-1977), Nguyen Sang (Vietnam, 1923-1988) and Nguyen Van Khanh for the government of Vietnam in 1945 as per an assignment by Finance Minister Pham Van Dong (later Prime Minister during 1955-1976).

A handwritten letter of Mai Van Hien (Vietnam, 1923-2006) to Boi Tran (Vietnam, B. 1957) and Boi Tran Art Gallery in 1998. "Hanoi, 3 April 1998 Dear Boi Tran Art Gallery, After a while away from Hanoi, I received a letter of invitation to the grand opening of the art gallery when returning home. Heartfelt ...

Letter of Victor Tardieu (French, 1870-1937) to Dr Morax.

Doctor Morax’s ophthalmology abstract - it is innovative and erudite spirits who are the first to be interested in Vietnamese painting. When Jean Tardieu, the son of the visionary Victor Tardieu, received a request to write an article for the special Christmas issue in 1932 of "L'Illustration" (which was the most famous French magazine of ...

Nguyen Phan Chanh's autograph, Hanoi, 9 September 1972.

L’Illustration, Issue No. 4683, Published in 1932 and Nguyen Phan Chanh's works featured in the magazine, including: "La Sorcière", "La Jeune Fille Lavant des Légumes", "Les ébats des enfants" and "L' Enfant à l'oiseau"

Luong Xuan Nhi's Le Repos (Resting), the world record for the artist with price realised HKD 5,165,000 at Christie’s Hong Kong in 2020, illustrated in the French booklet Les Écoles d'Art de l'Indochine, published by the Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques Paris in 1937.

Yayoi Kusama sculpted on rue du Pont Neuf, between the headquarters of Louis Vuitton and the Samaritaine on the Champs Élysées in honour of Louis Vuitton's new dotted collaboration with the famous designer.