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painting of a woman drinking from a glass next to a fish and a vasean oil painting of a white dog with a black nose and blue eyes
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172 - NGUYEN TRUNG (1940).
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Estimate €10,000 - €15,000
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Description
NGUYEN TRUNG (1940). The Woman at the Mirror Oil on canvas, framed, signed and dated 1 April 1990 at the bottom. Artist’s stamp. Dimensions: 94x94 cm. Provenance: Collection of Mrs X, who has been committed to promoting Vietnamese culture since the 1970s and has actively supported Vietnamese artists. Born in 1940 in Sóc Trang, Vietnam, Nguyen Trung is one of the leading figures in contemporary Vietnamese painting. An accomplished and renowned artist, his work is shaped by the influence of French painters and by the upheavals in the history of a country ravaged by war. Drawing inspiration from the European avant-garde movements, particularly Impressionism and Expressionism, Trung has developed his own pictorial language, in which silence and light interact with infinite delicacy. His palette, composed entirely of subtle shades of grey, muted blues and orange-tinged yellows, envelops his compositions in a soft, subdued light, like an invitation to step into the canvas to discover its subject. The female form, the ideal of Vietnamese beauty and a recurring motif in his work, becomes an inner landscape, a space for contemplation where the flesh fades into the subtlety of the brushstroke. Only the poetry of the gaze allows one to discover this essential beauty, which offers a serene world after a life marked by war and activism. A socially engaged artist, Trung creates a world deeply imbued with serenity and delicacy, and succeeds in freeing himself from any pre-existing foreign influences in favour of Vietnamese culture. The three paintings we are offering for sale are the perfect illustration of this exceptional artistic mastery, whose pictorial language invites us to explore its poetry.
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About the sale Indochina Chapter 22
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Auction time 09/08/2026 at 11:00 AM
Ref. : 8304 - 5
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