Vũ Cao Ðàm, Portrait of Monsieur Nguyễn Hữu Hợp
Oil on silk, signed lower left
53,5 × 44,8 cm – lot 8
Vũ Cao Ðàm, Portrait of Monsieur Nguyễn Hữu Hợp, 1951
Oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right
41 × 33 cm – lot 10
Mai Trung Thứ, Portrait of Madame Nguyễn Nguyệt Nga, 1950
Ink and color on silk, signed and dated upper left
61 × 46 cm – lot 7
Ngô Thế Tân, Portrait of Madame Nguyễn Nguyệt Nga, 1973
Oil on cardboard, signed and dated lower left
46 × 38 cm – lot 11
In the mid-twentieth century, Nguyễn Hữu Hợp and his wife, Madame Nguyễn Nguyệt Nga, were an aristocratic couple with close relationships with the royal family, especially with Bảo Đại, the last king of Việt Nam. Since 1948, they lived simultaneously in France and Hà Nội. Participating in international intellectual and artistic circles, they met Vietnamese artists such as Mai Trung Thứ, Vũ Cao Đàm and Lê Thị Lựu and her husband Ngô Thế Tân. They were keen to support the careers of these artists and commissioned portraits that remain in the family collection today.
ASIAN PAINTERS
MODERN ART IN VIỆT NAM
Auction on March 7, 2024
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Source: Aguttes
