Vietnamese painting sold for EUR200,000 at French auction
VOV.VN - The oil painting "Portrait of my mother” by the late veteran painter Nguyen Nam Son fetched EUR200,000 as it was sold on March 30 by auction house Art Research Paris in France.
This iconic portrait featuring the artist’s mother represents a classical local art masterpiece. The painting won the silver medal at the Fine Art exhibition in France back in 1932 and was subsequently bought by a French person a year later.
The painting features the historical value of the country's fine arts and has a deep meaning in terms of the culture of the Vietnamese people.
Painter Nguyen Nam Son, whose real name was Nguyen Van Tho, was born in 1890 in Hanoi.
Nguyen Nam Son and Victor Tardieu are the two founders of the Indochina Fine Arts College, the first Fine Arts school in South-East Asia which ran from 1925 to 1945. The talented artist had been a teacher of many Vietnamese painters and contributed to the development of fine arts locally.
He passed away on January 26, 1973, at the age of 83 in Hanoi.