Basically, Vu Cao Dam’s major is sculpture. But that did not affect his painting creation. Vu Cao Dam’s paintings of oil and silk are all beautiful in an exemplary classical visual language.
Style in Vu Cao Dam’s silk and oil paintings have a common visual language approach. Topics are usually maternity; portrait of young women; children; Thuy Kieu – Kim Trong; nude…
The painting ‘Mother and Son’, created around 1950, oil, 61×49.8cm with a starting price of 50-80K EUR was sold at Aguttes (France) on March 12th 2022 with a price of 220K EUR.
According to information from the auction house, this painting was in the collection of Mr. H.S.D. “Mr. D was born on April 15th, 1904 in Yen Huong, Tuyen Quang (Tonkin) and grew up in Indochina. He came to France in early 1920s and often associate with people from Indochina in Paris, he then opened a restaurant called ‘Hoan Son’ located on Monsieur Le Prince Street in Paris, where many compatriots came frequently. In 1950s, he obtained this painting of Vu Cao Dam and kept it all his life.”
This is one of the most beautiful and exemplary paintings in terms of visual language, style, and expression techniques. The whole painting is a mellow romantic harmony with typical colors in oil paintings of Vu Cao Dam. They are either a combination of blue – yellow; or a combination of green – dark red and light yellow.
Viet Art View introduces to you this beautiful work of Vu Cao Dam as a reference.
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