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Georges Khánh (Nguyễn Gia Khánh, 29 August 1905 – after 1945…
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212
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Georges Khánh (Nguyễn Gia Khánh, 29 August 1905 – after 1945…
See original version (French)
Estimate €3,000 - €4,000
Voluntary lot
Description
Georges Khánh (Nguyễn Gia Khánh, 29 August 1905 – after 1945), portrait of a young woman, Vietnam, Hanoi, 1936
A repoussé copper plate depicting a young woman in bust form, her face turned slightly, rendered with understated modelling and a focus on the facial volumes and expression. The relief technique allows the features to be rendered through a composition based on volumes and surface contrasts. The work is signed ‘G. Khánh’, with the location and date ‘Hanoi 1936’ in the bottom right-hand corner.
39.9 x 35.1 cm
Slight indentation on the right.
Georges Khánh, whose Vietnamese name was Nguy?n Gia Khánh, was born on 29 August 1905 (see *Sur l’art annamite* by Henri Gourdon, president of the Franco-Tonkinese Artistic Society. Lecture delivered at the Colonial School in Paris on 9 January 1914. *Revue Indochinoise*, June 1914, pp. 547–562), belongs to the first generation of artists trained at the Indochinese School of Fine Arts, founded in Hanoi by Victor Tardieu and Nam Son and opened in 1925. He was part of the first intake, alongside, notably, Lê Ph?, Mai Trung Th?, Nguy?n Phan Chánh and Lê Van D?. As the first Vietnamese student in that cohort to specialise in sculpture, he received training that combined European academic teaching – drawing, anatomy, composition and modelling – with the study of Vietnamese artistic traditions. After graduating around 1931, he became a professor of sculpture at the School, where he taught until its closure in 1945, thereby contributing to the training of the first generation of Vietnamese sculptors educated according to Western academic methods. A founding member of FARTA (Foyer de l’Art Annamite) in 1937, he also played a part in revitalising the Vietnamese art scene. Together with Vu Cao Dàm and Lê Ti?n Phúc, he created three monumental bas-reliefs exhibited at the International Colonial Exhibition in Paris in 1931, two versions of which are now held at the Vietnam University of Fine Arts. His best-known work is primarily devoted to portrait sculpture, characterised by a realism attentive to anatomy, volume and psychological expression, combined with great restraint. Influenced by, though not limited to, French academic sculpture, Georges Khánh developed a sculptural language that combines Western training with a more restrained Vietnamese approach to representation. Through his work as an artist and, above all, through his teaching, he is regarded as one of the founding figures of modern Vietnamese sculpture.
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