On February 2024, In fine éditions d’art will publish L’art moderne en Indochine. L’École des beaux-arts de l’Indochine, conceived and written by expert Charlotte Aguttes-Reynier. This publication is the first to provide an overview of the role of the Indochina School of Fine Arts in artistic creation. It is being released on the eve of the centenary of this institution, a true bridge between East and West.
SPOTLIGHT ON THE HISTORY OF MODERN ART IN INDOCHINA
“Helping a market to emerge and consolidate itself also means documenting it. In parallel with her 39th “Asian Painters” sale, Charlotte Aguttes-Reynier is working on [this] book…” Clémentine Pomeau-Peyre, “Émergences d’Asie”, Challenges, August 31, 2023, No. 795
As we prepare to celebrate the centenary of the Indochina School of Fine Arts, Charlotte Aguttes-Reynier highlights, in 432 pages, the contributions of this institution to international Art History, and shares the fruit of her ten years of research and expertise on the genesis of modern Vietnamese art. The expert in modern Asian art brings together in a single publication the key players in this institution, recounts the highlights between 1925 and 1945, and describes the exhibitions organized in Hanoi, Saigon and Paris, as well as how they were received by the critics. The book is illustrated with 319 illustrations and includes 28 biographies of students and teachers, as well as numerous archive documents. The author also opens the doors of numerous private collections and museum reserves…
This trilingual book lifts the veil that was cast over seventy years ago on an entire section of international art history. From Inguimberty to Alix Aymé, from Nguyễn Phan Chánh to Vũ Cao Đàm, via Mai Trung Thứ and Lê Phổ, teachers or students, they drew, painted, sculpted, worked with lacquer, exhibited… Directed by Victor Tardieu and then Évariste Jonchère, the school experienced a period of rich artistic emulation between 1925 and 1945, at the origin of the revival of modern Vietnamese art. Here, Charlotte Aguttes-Reynier sets out to explain the decisive stages that led to the emergence of the artistic elite envisioned by Tardieu, and sheds light on the many grey areas that until now have masked the richness and artistic importance of this period in Indochina.
“This in-depth endeavour to promote the work of these artists is such that the mention of their names is finally being noticed by a wider public. Thanks to this deserved spotlight, institutional exhibitions are being organized to support this momentum. My action has therefore been that of the spark that reawakens a fire that has been extinguished for too long.” Charlotte Aguttes-Reynier, L’Art moderne en Indochine, In Fine éditions d’art, 2023, pp. 18.
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Description:
Binding: Laminated board
Pages: 432
Illustrations: 250
Format: 22×32 cm
Languages: Trilingual French-English-Vietnamese
EAN/ISBN: 9782382031315
Publisher: In Fine éditions d’art
The players in this editorial project
L’art moderne en Indochine. L’École des beaux-arts de l’Indochine (1925-1945) bears witness to the way in which the art market enriches art history and contributes to the advancement of research into this long-forgotten school.
The author, Charlotte Aguttes-Reynier, an expert in modern Asian art, has been president of the Association des Artistes d’Asie à Paris (AAP), since 2019. Within the association (an organization of general cultural interest), she works to highlight and document various facets of modern Asian art, and more particularly to list the work of artist Mai Trung Thứ, that of Lê Phô and that of Vũ Cao Đàm. At the Aguttes auction house, Charlotte Aguttes-Reynier has spent the last 10 years focusing on the work of artists with dual training in China/France or Vietnam/France. She joined her family’s eponymous company in 1996, specializing in modern art from 2000, and accompanying the development of the Classical Arts division. Since 2013, she has paid particular attention to promoting the work of Asian artists. In this way, she honors some 70 artists, and has already examined and auctioned over 1,000 paintings, drawings, lacquers and sculptures (over 115 of them by Mai Trung Thứ, around 150 by Lê Phổ and nearly 100 of them by Vũ Cao Đàm).
The publishing house, In Fine éditions d’art, publishes art books and exhibition catalogs. It is part of the Société française de Promotion Artistique – SFPA (publisher of Connaissance des Arts and In Fine éditions d’art publications), a subsidiary of Les Echos – Le Parisien press group, the media division of the LVMH Group.
Aguttes historic market leader for artists from Asia
The Asian Painters department, headed by expert Charlotte Aguttes-Reynier, has been working for the past ten years to put the spotlight back on little-known Asian artists of the 20th century, regularly setting new world records. Her efforts have enabled the auction house to become the European leader in the Asian painters’ market, satisfying buyers from all over the world. Aguttes now has 9 employees working in Asia. At the rate of one sale per quarter since 2013, Aguttes is organizing its 41st sale on March 7, 2024.
Charlotte Aguttes-Reynier presents a selection of works prior to their auction
on October 6, 2020. In the center, a work by Lê Phổ (1907 – 2001),
becoming the 2nd world record for the artist that day.
4 world records among many others
Lê Phổ (1907-2001),
2nd world record for the artist at auction, on October 6, 2020.
Nguyễn Nam Sơn (1890 – 1973), world record for the artist at auction, on October 22, 2018.
Lương Xuân Nhị (1914 – 2006), world record for the artist at auction, on September 30, 2021.
Mai Trung Thứ (1906 – 1980),
2nd world record for the artist at auction, on September 30, 2021.
Source: Aguttes
