MAI TRUNG THU, known as MAI-THU (1906-1980) - Lot 244

Lot n° 244
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MAI TRUNG THU, known as MAI-THU (1906-1980) - Lot 244
MAI TRUNG THU, known as MAI-THU (1906-1980) School of Fine Arts of Indochina. Class of 1930. Lotus. Rare polychrome lacquer and gold leaf on panel, monogrammed lower right. In a box covered with green silk and titled LAQUE DE MAI-THU. Panel glued on a support. Dimensions of the panel: 19x13,5 cm. Dimensions of the box: 34x24,5 cm (insulated border). In 1961, Mai-Thu made a suite of illustrations of Poem on silk by the poet Pham Van Ky (1910-1992). The book containing the suite on silk is printed at 550 copies. 25 large numbered boxes contained the suite on silk and a lacquer in a box titled Laque de MaI-Thu. Two copies A and B contained the suite, a watercolor and two lacquers in titled boxes. Our lacquer in its box was part of a larger box containing the illustrated poem. It may be one of the two lacquers in one of the two copies printed on Japon or the lacquer of one of the 25 numbered copies. Bibliography: MAI-THU Echo of a dreamed Vietnam. Catalog of the Exhibition at the Musée des Ursulines in Macon in 2021. A copy exposed under the number 67 of the catalog. We thank Mrs Mai Lan Phuong who allowed the identification of this box.
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