Adam's Fine Asian Art Preview 23 November 2021

90 TRAN VAN THO (VIETNAM, BORN IN 1917) Fishermen returning home with a storm / Le retour de pêche par une bourrasque Ink and colours on silk Signed and sealed to the lower left Framed with a glass 25 x 35,8 cm €600 - 1,200 NOTE: Tran Van Tho graduated from the Ecole des Beaux Arts d’Indochine (Indochina Fine Arts College) in 1945. He left Hanoi, his native city, to settle in Saigon in 1954. He was notorious for his ink and silk paintings which were exhibited world widely. MAI TRUNG THU (VIETNAM AND FRANCE, 1906-1980) ECOLE DES BEAUX-ARTS DE L’INDOCHINE (INDOCHINA FINE ARTS COLLEGE), 1ST PROMOTION (1930) “La toilette” 1962 Print in colours on silk Bears a signature and a seal in the plate to the lower right Autographed and signed by the artist to the lower part: “A Madame Colin Timard avec les compliments de l’auteur” Framed Dimensions (the sole print): 54,2 x 45,5 cm €1,000 - 2,000 NOTES: 1. Mai Trung Thu, known as Mai Thu, is born in 1906. He comes from a wealthy family, his father, Mai Trung Cat was governor of Bac Ninh and was granted the title of baron by the French government. He studied at the French high school in Hanoi. In 1925, Mai Thu joined the first class of the Indochina School of Fine Arts, under the direction of Victor Tardieu. It is during his years of studies that he became interested in painting illustrat- ing scenes of Vietnamese rural life. He chose to paint them on silk, an expensive material that is as delicate as the palette of colours he uses. 2. Compare with an identical print also autographed at Sothe- by’s Hong Kong, China, 2015/10/05, lot 282, sold for €4.592 BP incl. Fig. 1 - Detail picture of the authograph