{"id":9475,"date":"2025-03-11T05:26:05","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T05:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thucdoan.com\/?p=9475"},"modified":"2025-04-10T19:39:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T19:39:06","slug":"9475","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thucdoan.com\/?p=9475","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thucdoan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_9848.png\" alt=\"\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"1179\" width=\"1600\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\tMai Trung Thu (Vietnam\/France, 1906-1980)<br \/>\nL&#8217;heure du th\u00e9 \u00e0 Hu\u00e9 (Tea Time in Hue)<br \/>\nsigned &#8216;MAI THU&#8217;, dated indistinctly &#8216;1937&#8217; (lower right)<br \/>\noil on canvas 70.5 x 99 cm. (27 3\/4 x 39 in.)<br \/>\nPainted in 1937\n<strong>Provenance<\/strong><br \/>\nCollection of Dr L\u00ea Thai and his wife, France (acquired directly from the artist)<br \/>\nChristie&#8217;s Singapore, 30 March 1997, lot 163<br \/>\nThe Philip Ng Collection, Singapore (acquired at the above sale)<br \/>\nSotheby&#8217;s Hong Kong, 8 April 2008, lot 709<br \/>\nAcquired at the above sale by the present owner\n<strong>Exhibited<br \/>\n<\/strong>Singapore Art Museum, Visions &amp; Enchantment: Southeast Asian Paintings, June-August 2000<br \/>\nHong Kong, LGDR &amp; Wei, <a href=\"https:\/\/thucdoan.com\/?p=2410\">Scenes Of This World: Modern Paintings From Singapore and Vietnam<\/a>, January-March 2023\n<strong>Estimate<br \/>\n<\/strong>HKD 2,000,000 &#8211; HKD 4,000,000\n<strong>Price Realised<\/strong><br \/>\nHKD 4,032,000\nChristie&#8217;s, The Henderson, Hong Kong<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.christies.com\/en\/auction\/a-quest-for-eternity-the-philippe-damas-collection-24143-hgk\/\">A Quest for Eternity: The Philippe Damas Collection<\/a><br \/>\nLive Auction | 29 March 2025\n\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rdkryPRU9OA?si=9IXxvOZn9J9QMRAU\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\t<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thucdoan.com\/?tag=a-quest-for-eternity-the-philippe-damas-collection\">A Quest for Eternity: The Philippe Damas Collection<\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mai Trung Thu (Vietnam\/France, 1906-1980) L&#8217;heure du th\u00e9 \u00e0 Hu\u00e9 (Tea Time in Hue) signed &#8216;MAI THU&#8217;, dated indistinctly &#8216;1937&#8217; (lower right) oil on canvas 70.5 x 99 cm. (27 3\/4 x 39 in.) Painted in 1937 Provenance Collection of Dr L\u00ea Thai and his wife, France (acquired directly from the artist) Christie&#8217;s Singapore, 30 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9460,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13,379],"tags":[809,27,20,806,816,808],"class_list":["post-9475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive","category-fine-art","category-southeast-asian-art","tag-a-quest-for-eternity-the-philippe-damas-collection","tag-christies","tag-mai-trung-thu","tag-philippe-damas","tag-scenes-of-this-world-modern-paintings-from-singapore-and-vietnam","tag-the-philippe-damas-collection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thucdoan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9475","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=9475"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thucdoan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9941,"href":"https:\/\/thucdoan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9475\/revisions\/9941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thucdoan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thucdoan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thucdoan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thucdoan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}