Vietnam, Paintings

Dinh Q. Lê (Vietnamese, born 1968), Untitled, from the series Cambodia: Splendor and Darkness, 1998. C-print and linen tape, 63 × 44 in. (160 × 111.8 cm). Acquired through the George and Mary Rockwell Fund, 2014.001 © 2017 Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University Dinh Q. Lê is the most established Vietnamese-American artist to date, having had a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (The Farmers and the Helicopters, 2009) and shown at dOCUMENTA 13. He was born in Ha Tien, a Vietnamese town... [Lire la suite]

Lot 261. Vũ Cao Đàm (1908-2000), L'Adieu. Signed and dated 64. Oil on canvas, 100.5 by 73 cm; 39 1/2  by 28 3/4  in.. Estimate 200,000 — 300,000 HKD. Lot sold 325,000 HKD. Photo: Sotheby’s. Sotheby’s. Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Art, Hong Kong, 03 Apr 2017, 10:00 AM

Lot 260. Vũ Cao Đàm (1908-2000), Le Rendez-Vous. Signed. Oil on canvas, 46 by 38 cm;  18 by 15 in. Estimate 60,000 — 80,000 HKD. Lot sold 125,000 HKD. Photo: Sotheby’s. Provenance: Private Collection, Singapore Sotheby’s. Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Art, Hong Kong, 03 Apr 2017, 10:00 AM

Lot 259. Nguyễn Trí Minh (B. 1924), Horses. Signed. Oil on canvas, 85.5 by 120.5 cm; 33 1/2  by 47 1/2  in. Estimate 40,000 — 60,000 HKD. Lot sold 60,000 HKD. Photo: Sotheby’s. Sotheby’s. Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Art, Hong Kong, 03 Apr 2017, 10:00 AM NDB: Nguyễn Trí Minh était un ami de mes parents. Je me rappelle avoir été plusieurs fois chez lui. Dans mes souvenirs, il buvait beaucoup et qu'il lacérait bon nombre de ses toiles. Il me semble que mes parents avaient... [Lire la suite]

Lot 257. Lê Phổ (1907-2001), Les Renoncules Jaunes (The Yellow Ranunculus). Signed in Vietnamese and Chinese. Oil on silk fixed on board, 27.5 by 26.5 cm; 10 3/4  by 10 1/2  in. Estimate 40,000 — 60,000 HKD. Lot sold 60,000 HKD. Photo: Sotheby’s. Provenance: Galerie Romanet Sotheby’s. Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Art, Hong Kong, 03 Apr 2017, 10:00 AM

Lot 256. Lê Phổ (1907-2001), Roses au Vase d'Etain (Roses in a Tin Vase). Signed in Vietnamese and Chinese. Oil on silk fixed on board, 45 by 26 cm; 17 3/4  by 10 1/4  in. Estimate 120,000 — 180,000 HKD. Unsold. Photo: Sotheby’s. Provenance: Galerie Romanet Sotheby’s. Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Art, Hong Kong, 03 Apr 2017, 10:00 AM

Lot 255. Mai Trung Thứ (1906-1980), Deux Jeunes Femmes (Two Young Ladies). Signed, stamped with a seal of the artist and dated 1942. Ink and gouache on silk, 43.5 by 28.5 cm; 17 by 11 1/4  in. Estimate 500,000 — 700,000 HKD (60,860 - 85,204EUR). Photo: Sotheby's. Note: “So it was that we soaped ourselves in sadness and we rinsed ourselves with hope, and for all that we believed almost every rumor we heard, almost all of us refused to believe that our nation... [Lire la suite]

Lot 254. Lê Phổ (1907-2001), La Cueillette (Fruit Picking). Signed in Vietnamese and Chinese. Oil on silk mounted on board, 62 by 30 cm; 24 1/2  by 11 3/4  in. Estimate 280,000 — 380,000 HKD (34,082 - 46,253 EUR). Photo: Sotheby's. Provenance: Galerie RomanetSotheby's Hong Kong, October 3 2011, Lot 576Acquired by the present owner from the above salePrivate Collection, Taiwan Sotheby's. Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Art, Hong Kong, 03 Apr... [Lire la suite]

Lot 250. Vũ Cao Đàm (1908-2000), Idylle (idyll). Signed and dated 60. Oil on canvas, 55 by 46 cm; 21 3/4  by 18 in. Estimate 70,000 — 90,000 HKD (8,520 - 10,955 EUR). Photo: Sotheby's Provenance: Private Collection, France Sotheby's. Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Art, Hong Kong, 03 Apr 2017, 10:00 AM

Lot 249. Vũ Cao Đàm (1908-2000), Mother and Child. Signed and dated 63. Oil on canvas, 46.5 by 55 cm; 18 1/4  by 21 1/2  in. Estimate 150,000 — 250,000 HKD (18,258 - 30,430 EUR). Photo: Sotheby's Sotheby's. Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Art, Hong Kong, 03 Apr 2017, 10:00 AM