{"id":4402,"date":"2020-07-18T11:59:21","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T11:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thucdoan.com\/?p=4402"},"modified":"2023-09-07T07:00:32","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T07:00:32","slug":"4402","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thucdoan.com\/?p=4402","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t\t\t\t\"\"\nVu Cao Dam (Vietnam, 1908-2000)
\nLe Cheval Blanc<\/a>
\nsigned and dated ‘vu cao dam 61’ (lower left)
\noil on canvas
\n52 x 63.5 cm. (20 1\/2 x 25 in.)
\nPainted in 1961\n

Price Realised HKD 687,500 at Christie’s Hong Kong, 27 May 2018<\/p>\n

VU CAO DAM: THE FINDLAY PERIOD, BEFORE AND DURING<\/strong><\/p>\n

Throughout his life, Vu Cao Dam repeated that his work was essentially drawn from the Kim Van Kieu, the poetic saga (written by Nguy\u00ean Du, 1765-1820) that for many observers inside and outside Vietnam was the very emblem of the deepest Vietnamese soul: a dramatic epic story from which Vu Cao Dam chose to illustrate only moments of happiness, love and serenity found within.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\"VU\nVu Cao Dam (Vietnam, 1908-2000)
\nComposition<\/a>
\nsigned ‘vu cao dam 78’ (lower left); signed ‘vu cao dam’, signed again in Chinese, titled ‘Composition’ and dated ‘1978’ (on the reverse)
\noil on canvas
\n81.5 x 100 cm. (32 1\/8 x 39 3\/8 in.)
\nPainted in 1978\n

Indeed, Vu Cao Dam came from a line of learned men, this is why he very naturally considered as a reference the grand literary Vietnamese tradition which he, by nature, both borrowed and acted upon.<\/p>\n

Whilst illustrating stories about the Kim Van Kieu , Vu Cao Dam was not satisfied with a simple illustration of the highly popular book; he added his personal touch and he breathed his truth into it. In some rare paintings, we can identify precise scenes of the story but usually the works are more allusive than descriptive. In the original text, Kie\u00fb and Van see a man appear on “his horse, small and vivacious, (…) white like snow, the colour in his clothing resemble wind and grass from the sky”. In this way, in Le Cheval Blanc (Lot 306), we can identify Kim, the main male character of the book. On the other hand, the two other paintings Composition (Lot 307) and Le Po\u00e8te (Lot 308) do not allow, even if they suggested it, a precise identification of Kim Van Kieu.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\"VU\nVu Cao Dam (Vietnam, 1908-2000)
\nLe Po\u00e8te<\/a>
\nsigned ‘vu cao dam’ (lower left); titled ‘Le Po\u00e8te’, inscribed and signed again (on the reverse)
\noil on canvas
\n24.5 x 33 cm. (9 5\/8 x 13 in.)
\npainted circa 1963\n

Executed in 1961, circa 1963 and 1978 our three masterworks show the progressive integration of the artist in his Findlay period. In a private interview with Yannick Vu- Jakober, the artist’s daughter, she said “I believe that Dad met Findlay through Le Pho in Paris (…) Findlay and his sister Helen often came to Saint- Paul and for a long time kept corresponding with my parents”.<\/p>\n

Two interesting points are worthy of being mentioned from these three works. Firstly, we can note that Vu Cao Dam “fixed” his new style before his commitment with the Findlay Gallery in 1963 as shown in Le Cheval Blanc dated 1961. Secondly, we can also see that under the influence of his time commissioned by the Findlay galleries, the background is not as charged allowing the artist to emphasize on the characters in the foreground. The three paintings are works of maturity, with a studied composition and an extraordinary mixture of mastery and the most intense sensitivity.<\/p>\nJean-Fran\u00e7ois Hubert
\nSenior Expert, Vietnamese Art\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vu Cao Dam (Vietnam, 1908-2000) Le Cheval Blanc signed and dated ‘vu cao dam 61’ (lower left) oil on canvas 52 x 63.5 cm. (20 1\/2 x 25 in.) Painted in 1961 Price Realised HKD 687,500 at Christie’s Hong Kong, 27 May 2018 VU CAO DAM: THE FINDLAY PERIOD, BEFORE AND DURING Throughout his life, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4374,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13,379],"tags":[78,27,38,28,37,54,21],"class_list":["post-4402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive","category-fine-art","category-southeast-asian-art","tag-20th-21st-century-art","tag-christies","tag-ebai","tag-jean-francois-hubert","tag-the-ecole-des-beaux-arts-de-lindochine","tag-the-school-of-fine-arts-of-indochina","tag-vu-cao-dam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thucdoan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thucdoan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thucdoan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thucdoan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thucdoan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4402"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thucdoan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6880,"href":"https:\/\/thucdoan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4402\/revisions\/6880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thucdoan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thucdoan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thucdoan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thucdoan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}