To the Sound of Vietnamese Music

Published on 28 June 2019, by Caroline Legrand

Auction on 14 July 2019 - 14:00 (CEST) - 7, rue Saint-Nicol - 14600 Honfleur

Mai Thu's work consists mainly of portraits of women and children. But now a rare horizontal composition of women singing, dancing and playing instruments is coming up for sale in Honfleur.

Mai Trung Thu dit Mai Thu (1906-1980), Jeunes musiciennes danseuses dans un jardin... To the Sound of Vietnamese Music

Mai Trung Thu dit Mai Thu (1906-1980), Jeunes musiciennes danseuses dans un jardin (Young women musician dancers in a garden), ca. 1940, ink and gouache on silk, 95 x 68 cm.
Estimate: €50,000/80,000

Bidding during the last two years has proved the immense popularity of this artist. As we remember, at Aguttes's sale on 26 March 2018 at Drouot, €297,080 went to a…

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bijoux, montres, argenterie, tableaux anciens, modernes et contemporains, objets d'art, meubles anciens et de style, Extrême-Orient

Sunday 14 July 2019 - 14:00 (CEST)

7, rue Saint-Nicol - 14600 Honfleur

Mytika Honfleur

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A Fine Score for an Intimist Scene by Mai-Thu

Featuring an unusual subject for the Vietnamese artist and dating from his popular period, around 1940, a musical garden scene tripled its high estimate.