Archive, Fine Art, Southeast Asian Art

Mai Trung Thu (Vietnam, 1906-1980)
Portrait de Ngo Manh Duc (Portrait of Ngo Manh Duc)
signed and dated ‘MAI THU 1942’ (lower left)
pencil on paper
19 x 12.5 cm. (7 1/2 x 4 7/8 in.)
Painted in 1942
one seal of the artist

Provenance
The Ngo Manh Duc Collection or The Homage of a Son to His Mother

Mai Trung Thu (Vietnamese, 1906-1980) and Ngo Manh Duc (B. 1941) - Son of Le Thi Luu (Vietnamese, 1911-1988) and Ngo The Tan. Photograph gifted to Mr Jean-François Hubert (Christie's Senior Consultant, Vietnamese Art) by Mr Ngo Manh Duc on the occasion of The Ngo Manh Duc Collection or The Homage of a Son to His Mother at Christie's Hong Kong, 24 November 2019.

Mai Thu holding Ngo Manh Duc