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 43 x 58 cm. (17 1/8 x 22 3/4 in.) Painted in 1964 one seal of the artist Provenance Galerie Jean-François Apesteguy, Deauville Private collection, Switzerland ...

Nguyen Trung (Vietnam, B. 1940) Lady with Tea signed and dated ‘NgTrung 08’ (lower left) lacquer on panel 100 x 100 cm. (39 3/8 x 38 3/8 in.) Painted in 2008 The work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from the artist. Provenance Acquired directly from the artist Collection of Boi Tran Garden, Hue, Vietnam ...

More than five centuries ago, on October 31, 1512, the frescoes on the vault of the Sistine Chapel were inaugurated. Michelangelo's masterwork, these frescoes are set in the chapel erected at the request of Pope Sixtus IV in place of the medieval Capella Magna. Since the 15th century, this chapel has housed the Conclave, the ...

The Scream — One of the world’s most famous artworks, a universal symbol of anxiety and it even has its own emoji. Edvard Munch (Norwegian, 1863-1944) The Scream unsigned oil, tempera, pastel and crayon on cardboard 91 × 73.5 cm. (36 × 28.9 in.) painted in 1910? Collection of Munch Museum Munch's challenge in this painting is to depict a deafening ...

Under the title "J'ai une famille" (I have a family), the Palais de la Porte-Dorée in Paris is bringing together, until February 18, 2024, works by artists who arrived in France in the 1980s. The "J'ai une famille" exhibition brings together ten Chinese-born artists working in France: two women and eight men. Two have now ...

Rue Delambre and the plaques of Gauguin, Breton, and Hemingway. Hotel Delambre - where Paul Gauguin, André Breton, and Maurice Le Scouezec stayed in the 14th arrondissement of Paris. Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was a French Post-Impressionist artist, noted mostly for his colourful paintings that he created during the ten years he lived in Tahiti in French ...

Gaston Roullet (France, 1847-1925) Village de Dong Ba, faubourg de Hue (Annam - 1885) signed 'Gaston Roullet' and titled (lower left) oil on canvas 70 x 100 cm. (27 1/2 x 39 3/8 in.) Painted in 1885 Gaston Roullet, appointed official painter of the Colonies and the Navy in 1885, was the first official Navy ...

Saint-François-Xavier, Paris, France - The church where Le Pho had his death ceremony in 2021. Le Pho had converted to Catholicism and taken as his baptismal name "Victor", the first name of his beloved master, Victor Tardieu.

Pablo Picasso and Marc Chagall, Vallauris, France, 1955. Photographed by Philippe Halsman (America, 1906-1979).

Christie’s Paris: La Collection Sam Josefowitz: Vente du Soir on 20 October 2023. Sam Josefowitz was one of the most revered collectors of our time. His vast-ranging collection of discoveries spanning antiquities to post-Impressionist works is defined by a passionate and scholarly approach. Whether entrepreneurial, cultural, academic or personal, Sam Josefowitz’s innate and boundless curiosity ...