1977 - Lot 34

1977 Lacquer paintings of Viet Nam - A selection of 40 lacquer paintings - 1945-1975, Hanoi, 1977. Interesting and unusual documentation of a selection of 40 works in collaboration with the Hanoi Museum of Fine Arts. The selection was made under the aegis of Tran Van Can himself, then Secretary General of the Union of Vietnamese Painters. The set comprises folios in a cardboard folder illustrated with full-page color photographs, captioned in French, English, Spanish, German, Russian and Chinese. Size: 43.5x32 cm. (Creases, wear). Also included: - L'Illustration, Noël, December 3, 1932. Interesting article on "modern Annamite painting", including several pages on the work of Nguyen Phan Chan. - Alix Aymé, Christiane Fournier. En parcourant l'Indochine. S.A.M. Les Beaux Livres. Éditions "Les Flots bleus", Monte Carlo 1954, First edition, 290 pages. Sous-jaquette. Numerous illustrations by Alix Aymé. Size: 18.5x14 cm.