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Alix Aymé (France, 1894-1989), the one who awakened the art of lacquer in Vietnam, unveils masterpieces of incredible technical refinement. She began to paint in Paris during the First World War and was a pupil of Maurice Denis. In 1920, she accompanied her husband to Shanghai and then went on to Hanoi, where she taught drawing at the Lycée Albert Sarraut. At the Autumn salon of 1923, she exhibited a vast composition representing vendors beside the petit Lac at Hanoi. A prolific illustrator and a great traveller, she became an expert theoretician on lacquer, a technique which she eventually taught Inguimberty between 1934 and 1939.