To mark the 30th anniversary of Christie's Asia, Asian 20th Century and Contemporary Art unveils an exciting range of masterpieces by leading Asian artists at Christie’s Hong Kong Spring Auctions. Collectors are offered a glimpse into contemporary artistic movements, uncovering the artists’ unique and historic ideas and styles. Carefully curated works by modern and contemporary masters from China, Japan, Korea and Southeast Asia reveal distinctive differences between art in the East and the West, also offering for the first time in the Asian 20th Century Art day sale, chart the course of Vietnamese art from the classical period to modern times.
On this particular occasion, Christie’s, for the very first time, published a separate Vietnamese Art Vanity – Se Souvenir Des Belles Choses: A Curated Collection of Vietnamese Art.
Zineng Wang
Vice President, Senior Specialist, Head of Sale
Southeast Asian Art
Jean-François Hubert
Senior Expert
Vietnamese Art
Dear Bem,
We would like to personally thank you for your valuable contribution to the exhibition and sale at Christie’s Se Souvenir Des Belles Choses: A Curated Collection of Vietnamese Art. Your translation work, your suggestions, and your constant enthusiasm have made the catalogue, the exhibition and the sale a total success which you share with all the Christie’s teams and us.
Excerpted from Mr Wang and Mr Hubert’s email to Thuc Doan / Bem on 30 June 2016
Christie’s Se Souvenir Des Belles Choses: A Curated Collection of Vietnamese Art is one of Thuc Doan's publications as an art translator and advisor for Christie's. As an independent advisor with expertise in the development of private Vietnamese art collections, offering curatorial, consultancy and market intelligence services for art collectors, buyers and consignors, Thuc Doan has been a Vietnamese Topics Advisor, Translator, Interpreter providing reference catalogue, scholarly translated articles and insightful information for Christie’s since then.
