Vietnamese painting sold
for a record US$390,000
TUOITRENEWS
Nguyen
Phan Chanh's La Marchand de Riz (The Rice Seller). christies.com
A work of late Vietnamese painter
Nguyen Phan Chanh was sold last month for HK$3.03 million (US$390,000) in
Hong Kong by Christie’s International, one of the world’s largest fine-art
auction houses.
The painting, titled La Marchand de Riz (The Rice
Seller) was bought by Pascal de Sarth, a French art collector living
It has established a record for a Vietnamese painting.
Previously, a drawing of late artist Le Pho was sold at around US$373,000 at
an auction in
“La marchande de riz illustrates perfectly the talent
of a painter at his best, painting the simple but evocative subjects of
commoners engaged in small trades or other equally timeless moments in
Vietnamese life,” Christie introduced the work and its author.
Drawn in 1932, “La Marchand de Riz” was initially
priced at US$75 since it was mistakenly identified as an unsigned work.
Later, some Asian fine art experts detected the author’s signature on the
back of the painting and re-estimated it at the price of HK$800,000 to HK$1
million.
According to Christie, Nguyen Phan Chanh painted the
drawing when he was 40 years old and had just graduated from the Indochina
Fine Art School only two years before in 1930 as the eldest of the graduating
students from the first class.
“Nguyen Phan Chanh applies a style of his own with
strong and solid masses, for example the hat of the seller or her huge
basket, with no superfluous decoration, in a style close to traditional and
popular Vietnamese woodcuts,” Christie added.
Other works by painter Nguyen Phan Chanh was also
listed on Christie’s International’s website, including “Bather,”
“Kindergarten” and “Crab Catcher”, with prices realized at US$20,016,
US$41,135 and US$12,650, respectively.
Born in 1892 in the
During his career, Nguyen Phan Chanh created 170 works
and scored a record for a painter with the most works exhibited at the
When he
passed away in 1984 in
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Thứ Tư, 12 tháng 6, 2013
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