Vu Cao Dam ART FOR SALE

1908 Hanoi North Vietnam - 2000 France. Known for: Modernist figure, landscape and portrait bust sculpture.

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Vu Cao Dam was born on January 8, 1908 in Hanoi, the capital of Tonkin. He grew up in a family that had been converted to Catholicism since the 18th century and his father, who spoke French admirably, was sent to Paris for the 1889 Universal Exhibition. His father founded and directed the Hanoi School of Interpreters which trained the mandarins of the colonial regime. It is thus within this privileged universe, where Chinese calligraphy permeates daily life, that Vu Cao Dam evolved. In 1926, he joined the second class of the Hanoi School of Fine Arts, which was directed by the painter Victor Tardieu. There he rubbed shoulders with Mai Trung Thu, Nguyen Phan Chanh, Le Pho and learned western academic techniques thanks to lessons in... Read full biography

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Le Pagodon

Type:Painting

Year:1979

Size:15.00" x 18.25"

Medium:Oil

Signed:Lower Right

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A beautiful poetic example by this most capable Vietnamese artist working in Paris. In immaculate original condition and handsomely framed to reflect its appeal, "The Pagoda" is exemplary of Vu Cao Dam's gesture of the period.

Price: SOLD