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 that time), he decided to present four paintings of Nguyen Phan Chanh.

All of them had been sent to France in 1931 to promote the new field of Vietnamese pictorial art. The collection included: "La Sorcière", "La Jeune Fille Lavant des Légumes", "Les ébats des enfants", and "L' Enfant à l'oiseau".

The magazine ensured all of the collectors, these visionary buyers of the presented masterpieces, were named, particularly, Mr Pierre Massé, Dr Montel and Dr Morax.