Adam's Fine Asian Art Preview 23 November 2021

www.adams.ie 91 Preview Asian Art |23 rd November 2021 TRAN PHUC DUYEN (1923-1993) ECOLE DES BEAUX-ARTS DE L’INDOCHINE (INDOCHINA FINE ARTS COLLEGE), 16TH PROMOTION (1942) Landscape of the Delta Region Cigar and music box, the top adorned Circa 1950 Gilt and polychrome lacquer on a black mirror ground on wood Signed on the lower right H: 7,5 cm - L: 26 cm - w: 19 cm €6,000 - 12,000 NOTE: Tran Phuc Duyen was born in Hanoi in 1913. Fascinated with the art of drawing and painting, he embraced a career in that field, successfully passed the entrance exam of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts d’Indochine (Indochi- na Fine Arts), from which he majored in lacquerware in 1942, along with major artists such as Jean Volang (1921-). From 1945 to 1954, he was living and working in Hanoi, where he had his studio. He received numer- ous commands from bourgeois families and French officials. In 1950, three of his lacquers were selected to be gifted to Pope Pius and kept in the Vatican Museum. While in Hanoi, he was a close friends of artists like Bui Xuan Phai (1920-1988) and Nguyen Tien Chung (1914-1976), for whom he drew many sketches and whom had a strong influence on his work. In 1954, he moved to Paris, France, where he did study under the direction of Jean Souverbie (1891 - 1981) at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris (Paris School of Fine Arts). In 1961, he had a solo exhibition in Nice, France, with a total of forty lacquer and silk paintings