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Rare and Important Buddha Statue In Gilded Copper Nepal, Early Malla Period, 13th Century Height: 21,5 cm. (8 ½ in.) Estimate EUR 300,000 – EUR 500,000 Price realised EUR 428,400 at Christie’s: Art d’Asie, Paris, 13 June 2024 The figure presented here stands as a quintessential example of Newari gilt-copper craftsmanship, hailing from the earliest years of the Malla period, widely acclaimed as the zenith …
Christie’s Paris: Art d’Asie, 6-18 June 2024, presents 240 lots of important porcelain and works of art, including cloisonné enamels, lacquer and Buddhist sculptures. Highlights include a selection of extremely rare porcelain from the Ming Dynasty from a private European collection comprising a yellow-ground blue and white ‘gardenia’ dish from the Zhengde reign (1506-1521) and an important Junyao tripod narcissus bowl, Yuan-Ming Dynasty, 14th-15th century. …
Le Pho’s son Alain Le Kim, Anne-Solenne Hatte and Christie’s Vietnamese Art Expert Jean-François Hubert at Christie’s Paris exhibition The Phoenix Glue and the Broken Silk Thread – Important Vietnamese Artworks from the Melchior Dejouany Collection Christie’s Vietnamese Art Expert Jean-François Hubert, Kim Chi Pho and Le Pho’s son Alain Le Kim at the exhibition The Phoenix Glue and the Broken Silk Thread – Important …
Henry Howard-Sneyd, Chairman of Asian Arts, Americas, and Europe, headed an auction for an extremely rare Qing Dynasty bowl, one of only three known to exist, at Sotheby’s in Hong Kong on April 3, 2018. This bowl, made for the Chinese emperor Kangxi, fetched 30.4 million USD at Sotheby’s. Henry Howard-Sneyd is Chairman of Asian Art, Europe and Americas based between London and New York. He …
Sotheby’s Chairman of Asian Art, Europe and Americas based between London and New York and lead Auctioneer globally in Asian Art Henry Howard-Sneyd and Christie’s Vietnamese Art Expert Jean-François Hubert at Christie’s Paris exhibition The Phoenix Glue and the Broken Silk Thread – Important Vietnamese Artworks from the Melchior Dejouany Collection, 9 Avenue Matignon 75008 Paris, France Henry Howard-Sneyd, Chairman of Asian Arts, Americas, and …
French collector Melchior Dejouany and Hong Kong collector Richard Kan at Christie’s Paris exhibition The Phoenix Glue and the Broken Silk Thread – Important Vietnamese Artworks from the Melchior Dejouany Collection, 9 Avenue Matignon 75008 Paris, France Hong Kong collector Richard Kan (Courtesy Sotheby’s) Richard Kan is a Hong Kong-based collector of international repute of objects of fine art, an organizer of important exhibitions worldwide …
Jean Siméon Chardin’s Le Melon entamé fetched EUR €26,730,000 at Christie’s Paris, 12 June 2024 Chardin was the pre-eminent still-life painter of his day and would go on to inspire Manet, Matisse and Cezanne. This masterpiece from the Rothschild family collection is offered with the estimate EUR 8,000,000 – 12,000,000 in Maîtres Anciens: Peintures – Sculptures on 12 June 2024 at Christie’s Paris Le melon …
The Melchior Dejouany Collection: The Phoenix Glue and the Broken Silk Thread at Christie’s Paris, 8-12 June 2024 Paris – Christie’s associated with the seventh edition of the Asian Spring in Paris. To celebrate the centenary of the creation of the School of Fine Arts of Indochina, Christie’s Paris present from June 8 to 13 an exhibition of important artworks from the Melchior Dejouany Collection …
Hoang Tich Chu (Vietnam, 1912-2003) La Haute-Région du Tonkin (Tonkinese Upper Region) signed and dated ‘H T Chu 9⁄50’ (lower right) lacquer on panel each: 90 x 46 cm. (35 3⁄8 x 18 1⁄8 in.) (5) overall: 90 x 230 cm. (35 3⁄8 x 90 1⁄2 in.) Painted in 1950 Offered with 1 original sketch and 3 drawings by the artist Christie’s Paris: The Phoenix …
Chardin was the pre-eminent still-life painter of his day and would go on to inspire Manet, Matisse and Cezanne. This masterpiece from the Rothschild family collection is offered with the estimate EUR 8,000,000 – 12,000,000 in Maîtres Anciens: Peintures – Sculptures on 12 June 2024 at Christie’s Paris Le melon entamé is one of the artist’s most important works, and it remains in private hands. …
Vu Cao Dam (Vietnam/France, 1908-2000) Tête de femme (Head of a Woman) signed ‘Vu Cao Dam’ (on the back of the neck) terracotta sculpture with artist’s base Sculpture: 20 (H) x 12 x 10 cm. (7 7/8 x 4 3/4 x 3 7/8 in.) Socle: 6 x 7 x 6.8 cm. (2 3/8 x 2 3/4 x 2 5/8 in.) Executed circa 1939 The Melchior …
Speeches of the French collector Melchior Dejouany and Christie’s Vietnamese Art Senior Expert Jean-François Hubert at the exhibition The Phoenix Glue and the Broken Silk Thread – Important Vietnamese Artworks from the Melchior Dejouany Collection at Christie’s Paris Recap of the speech of Christie’s Vietnamese Art Senior Expert Jean-François Hubert
Le Pho (Vietnam/France, 1907-2001) La baignade (Bathing) signed in Chinese and signed again ‘Le Pho’ (lower left) gouache and ink on silk 46 x 30.5 cm. (18 1/8 x 12 in.) painted circa 1938 one seal of the artist The Melchior Dejouany Collection: The Phoenix Glue and the Broken Silk Thread, Christie’s Paris
Mai Trung Thu (Vietnam/France, 1906-1980) Retour de la cueillette (Back from Fruit Picking) signed and dated ‘MAI TR THU 1935’ (lower right) pastel, charcoal, and chalk on paper 58.8 x 38.8 cm. (23 1/8 x 15 1/4 in.) Executed in 1935 one seal of the artist The Melchior Dejouany Collection: The Phoenix Glue and the Broken Silk Thread, Christie’s Paris Provenance Christie’s Hong Kong, 3 …
Invitation to a Vietnamese art exhibition “La colle du phénix et le fil de soie brisé: œuvres vietnamiennes majeures de la collection Melchior Dejouany” (“Phoenix Glue and Silk Thread: major Vietnamese works from Melchior Dejouany Collection”) at Christie’s Paris, 9 Avenue Matignon, Paris, France, with no fewer than nine artists, including Le Pho, Mai Trung Thu, Vu Cao Dam, Nguyen Gia Tri, Hoang Tich Chu, …
To celebrate the centenary of the establishment of the School of Fine Arts of Indochina (1924-2024), Christie’s Paris, associated with Printemps Asiatique Paris, presents, from 8 to 13 June 2024, a Vietnamese art exhibition “La colle du phénix et le fil de soie brisé: œuvres vietnamiennes majeures de la collection Melchior Dejouany” (“Phoenix Glue and Silk Thread: major Vietnamese works from Melchior Dejouany Collection”) at …
Works by Vietnamese artists Le Pho, Vu Cao Dam, Nguyen Tu Nghiem, Nguyen Nam Son, Nguyen Sang… on display and auction sale at Christie’s Hong Kong, 29 May 2024. Christie’s 20th Century Art Day sale this year features works by Asian masters bridging the East and the West, as well as their prominent contemporaries in Europe and the Americas; the auction traces how modern art …
Nguyen Sang (Vietnam, 1923-1988) Portrait of a Girl signed, inscribed with monogram and dated ‘hn NG SANG 1971’ (upper left) oil on canvas 80 x 60 cm. (31 1/2 x 23 5/8 in.) Painted in 1971 Provenance Collection of Pierre Reinhardt, Paris Private collection Sotheby’s Singapore, 6 October 2002, lot 95 Acquired at the above sale by the present owner Estimate HKD 150,000 -240,000 Price …
Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999) Passe-plats, commande spéciale, réalisé pour la maison de Jean et Huguette Borot, place Jean-Baptiste Clément, Paris, 1958-1971 Padouk d’Afrique, bambou, contreplaqué de pin peint et miroir / African padauk, bamboo, painted pine plywood and mirrored glass 254 x 290 x 98 cm / 100 x 114 1/8 x 38 5/8 in Estimate EUR 140,000 – EUR 180,000 Price realised EUR 107,100 Christie’s Paris, Design, …
Jean Prouvé (France, 1901-1984) Lit de repos ‘S.C.A.L. N. 450’, le modèle créé en 1953 Tôle et tube d’acier pliés et peints, chêne ; tissu / painted and folded steel sheet and tube, oak ; fabric 26 x 190 x 80 cm / 10 ¼ x 74 ¾ x 31 ½ in Estimate EUR 5,000 – 7,000 Price realised EUR 9,450 Christie’s Paris, Design, 23 May 2024
Le Pho (Vietnam/France, 1907-2001) Sur la terrasse (On the Terrace) signed in Chinese and signed again ‘Le pho’ (lower right); signed in Chinese and signed again, titled and inscribed ‘Le Pho Wally Findlay Galleries Palm Beach Sur la terrasse Pour Mr et Mrs George G. Sand avec les hommages de l’artiste’ (on the reverse); gallery label affixed (on the reverse) oil on canvas 73.5 x …
Le Pho (Vietnam/France, 1907-2001) La toilette (Washing) signed in Chinese and signed again ‘Le pho’ (upper right) ink and gouache on silk 34 x 31.5 cm. (13 3/8 x 12 3/8 in.) Painted circa 1942 one seal of the artist Provenance Private collection, France Thence by descent to the present owner Estimate HKD 800,000-1,500,000 Price realised HKD 1,134,000 On view and auction sale at Christie’s Hong Kong, …
Nguyen Gia Tri (Vietnam, 1908-1993) Paysage de Rizières (Landscape with Rice Fields) signed ‘Ng TRI’ (lower right) lacquer, eggshell white and gold paint on panel 23.5 x 23.5 cm. (9 1/4 x 9 1/4 in.) Executed circa1943 Provenance Collection of Évariste Jonchère, director of the École des Beaux-Arts de l’Indochine from 1937-1945 (gifted directly by the artist) Collection of Madame E. Jonchère-Debiol The Scheeres Collection Phillips …
Le Pho (Vietnam/France, 1907-2001) L’adieu au Tonkin (Farewell to Tonkin) signed and dated ‘LE-PHO 1936’ (lower left) oil on canvas 91.5 x 91.5 cm. (36 x 36 in.) Painted in 1936 Provenance Collection of Tholance-Lorenzi, France Thence by descent to the present owner Estimate HKD 550,000-750,000 Price realised HKD 2,520,000 On view and auction sale at Christie’s Hong Kong, 29 May 2024 Le Pho, “L’adieu …
The largest art museum in the Western United States – Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), founded in 1961, splitting from the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art; four years later, it moved to the Wilshire Boulevard complex designed by William Pereira. The museum’s wealth and collections grew in the 1980s, and it added several buildings beginning in that decade and continuing in subsequent decades.
Matisse, in his workshop in Nice, Place Charles-Félix, in a decor that he organized, a stage, shimmering fabrics, flowers… He sets up his easel and the magic happens. Arriving in Nice in 1917, Matisse made the Côte d’Azur his chosen land, he lived there and above all worked there until the end of his days in 1954.
Le Pho’s Femme du Mandarin (The Mandarin’s Wife) at ‘Nucleo Storico’ Exhibition, Venice Biennale 2024. Le Pho (Vietnam, 1907-2001) Femme du Mandarin (The Mandarin’s Wife) signed and dated ‘LE-PHO 1931’ (lower right) oil on canvas 81 x 130 cm. (31 ⁵⁷/₆₄ x 51 ³/₁₆ in.) painted in 1931 on seal of the artist Exhibited Drouot, 19 December 1996 (illustrated, front cover). Netherlands, Scheveningen, VSB Circus …
Paul Sérusier (1863-1927) Promenade du Dimanche (Robe Noire) 36.5 x 93 cm. (14 3/8 x 36 5/8 in.) signed and dated ‘P. Sérusier 1894’ (on the reverse) tempera on canvas Painted in Châteauneuf-du-Faou in 1894 Estimate EUR 50,000 – EUR 70,000 Paul Sérusier (1863-1927) Promenade du Dimanche (Robes Jaunes) signed and dated ‘P. Sérusier 1894’ (on the reverse) tempera on canvas 36.5 x 93 cm. …
It was in his New York studio that Marcel Duchamp worked for 20 years, from 1946 to 1966, on this installation which he wishes to be his testament. It will in fact be permanently exhibited, one year after his death, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, in accordance with his wishes. On one wall, a double wooden door framed by bricks. The door comes from …
The very first exhibition ‘Le Gala du Salon de 1935’, L’Avenir du Tonkin, 25 March 1935 held by SADEAI: Société Annamite d’Encouragement à l’Art et à l’Industrie (The Annamite Society for the encouragement of art and industry) initiated by Victor Tardieu in May 1934. It was granted legal capacity by a decision of the Governor General dated August 6, 1935. Its head office was located …
Seated (left to right): Ngo Manh Duc (son of Le Thi Luu), Michel Vu (son of Vu Cao Dam), Jeanne Sineray, known as Sao, (wife of Mai Trung Thu disguised as a Breton with a costume by Yannick Vu painted by his father), Yannick Vu (daughter of Vu Cao Dam) wearing Sao’s tunic. Standing (left to right): Le Thi Luu, her husband Ngo The Tan; …
