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7 - VŨ CAO ĐÀM (1908–2000)
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VŨ CAO ĐÀM (1908–2000) Annamite Girl Bronze with black and green patina, signed and bearing the inscription ‘Artist’s proof’ on the plinth 37 x 13.2 x 14.2 cm 14 ½ x 5 ¼ x 5 5/8 in Provenance: Collection of Colette Reynaud, daughter of Minister Paul Reynaud, France (who became close to the artist, who created her bust on board the d’Artagnan during the crossing from Haiphong to Marseille at the end of 1931; the work has been passed down through the family ever since) Béatrice and Daniel Gervis Collection, France (inherited from the previous owner) Bibliography: Charlotte Aguttes-Reynier, The Revival of Modern Art in Indochina – 25 artists, 52 works, Association of Asian Artists in Paris (AAP), 2024, ill. pp. 11, 116, 117. Expertise Information: A certificate confirming inclusion in the artist’s catalogue raisonné, currently being compiled by Charlotte Aguttes-Reynier for the Association des Artistes d’Asie à Paris, will be provided to the purchaser. Exhibition(s): 2024, ‘The Revival of Modern Art in Indochina – 25 Artists, 52 Works’, Aguttes (October 2024) 2025, ‘Three Masters of Vietnamese Painting (Lê Phổ – Mai-Thu – Vũ Cao Đàm)’, Musée Cernuschi, Paris (extended 10 March – 4 May 2025) Related work(s): Vũ Cao Đàm, Annamite Girl. Sale [24] Aguttes, 11 March 2020 Vũ Cao Đàm, Annamite Girl. Auction [43] Aguttes, 22 May 2024 Further information: HISTORY (EXHIBITIONS FEATURING A SIMILAR WORK) 1929, Exhibition of painting and sculpture, works produced by students during the holidays, EBAI, Hanoi (15 November–?) 1931, Paris Colonial Exhibition, Vincennes (6 May–15 November) 1931, Colonial Art Exhibition, Rome (December) 1932, Exhibition of the Hanoi School of Fine Arts and the Indochinese Schools of Crafts, Agindo, Paris, no. 75 (29 February – 31 March) 1932, Salon des Artistes Français, Grand Palais, Paris, no. 4111 (30 April–30 June), titled ‘Head of an Annamite Girl’ 1932, Salon des artistes indochinois & Alix Aymé exhibition, Agindo, Paris (10–25 October) Collections of the Musée des Colonies (acquired in 1933) 1941, Salon d’Automne, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris, for another copy, no. 2156 (4 October–9 November) 1944–1945, ‘French Indochina’, Gallery of the Economic Agency for the Colonies, Paris, for another copy (29 December–3 February) Collections of the National Museum of African and Oceanic Arts (historical collection) 1991, ‘Expression of Distant Horizons: Colonial Painting, 1900–1940’, Bonnat Museum, Bayonne (12 April–30 September) Collection of the Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, Paris (transferred from the previous collection in 2006), on loan to the Musée des Années Trente since 1992, Boulogne-Billancourt, inv. 75.9734, titled ‘Head of a Young Girl’ ’ 2012–2013, ‘From the Red River to the Mekong: Visions of Vietnam’, Cernuschi Museum, Paris (20 September–27 January) 2013–2014, ‘Indochina: Lands and People, 1856–1956’, Musée de l’Armée, Paris (16 October–26 January) 2024–2025, ‘Three Masters of Vietnamese Painting (Lê Phổ – Mai-Thu – Vũ Cao Đàm)’, Cernuschi Museum, Paris (11 October 2024 – 9 March 2025). 2025, ‘City of Others: Asian Artists in Paris, 1920s–1940s’, National Gallery Singapore, Singapore (2 April 2025 – 17 August 2025). BIBLIOGRAPHY (FOR A SIMILAR EXHIBITION) ‘Inauguration of the Salon des artistes indochinois – Art in Indochina’, *Le Monde colonial illustré*, no. 88, December 1930, reprinted on p. 306. L’Art vivant, no. 151, August 1931, reprinted on p. 389. Three Art Schools of Indochina: Hanoi, Phnom Penh and Bien Hoa, Imprimerie d’Extrême-Orient, Hanoi, 1931, reprinted in plate V. ‘Colonial Exhibition’, *L’Illustration*, special edition (May–June–July), 1931, reprinted. ‘The Hanoi School of Fine Arts’, *L’Illustration*, no. 4608, 27 June 1931, reprinted. ‘Indochina’, *Climats*, 1949, reprinted. *Quang Phong, Quang Vier, My chuât chü do Hà Noi Thé ky XX – The Fine Arts of the Capital of Hanoi in the 20th Century*, The Fine Arts Publisher – Hanoi. 1999–2000, reprinted 2.54, p. 62. From the Red River to the Mekong: Visions of Vietnam, exhibition catalogue, Paris Musées, Editions Findakly, 2012, pp. 98–99. Christophe Bertrand, Caroline Heberlin, Jean-François Klein, *Indochina: Lands and People, 1856–1956*, Paris, Gallimard, 2013, repr. no. 182. Dominique Jarrassé, Laurent Houssais, Our Artists in the Colonies – Societies, Exhibitions and Journals in the French Empire, 1851–1940, Éditions Esthétiques du divers, 2015, reprint, p. 125. Dominique Jarrassé and Sarah Ligner, *Colonial Arts – The Movement of Artists and Artefacts between France and its Colonies*, Éditions Esthétiques du divers, 2021, p. 22. Charlotte Aguttes-Reynier, Modern Art in Indochina, In Fine Éditions d’Art, 2023, reprinted, pp. 59, 66, 99, 101.  Charlotte Aguttes-Reynier, The Revival of Modern Art in Indochina – 25 Artists, 52 Works, Association des Artistes d’Asie à Paris (AAP), 2024, reprinted on pp. 11, 116, 117 Anne Fort (ed.), Three Vietnamese Masters: Lê Phô, Mai-Thu, Vu Cao Dam. Pioneers of Vietnamese Modern Art in France, Paris, Paris Musées, 2024, p. 80. Phoebe Scott, *City of Others: Asian Artists in Paris, 1920s–1940s*, National Gallery Singapore, Singapore, 2025, under the title ‘Head of an Indochinese Woman’, reprinted on pp. 120, 368–369.
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About the sale Auction [52] Asian Painters | Modern Art: China, Japan & Vietnam
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