Details of Mai Trung Thu's Contes et légendes (Fairy Tales and Legends)

Mai Trung Thu (Vietnam/France, 1906-1980)
Contes et légendes (Fairy Tales and Legends)
signed ‘MAI THU’ and dated in Chinese (lower left)
ink and gouache on silk laid on paper
44.4 x 59.2 cm. (17 1⁄2 x 23 1⁄4 in.).
Painted in 1964
one seal of the artist

Provenance
Galerie Jean-François Apesteguy, Deauville
Private collection, Switzerland

Estimate
HKD 700,000–900,000
USD 90,000–120,000

On display at Christie's Singapore, 29 October 2023
On view and auction sale at Christie's Hong Kong, 29 November 2023