MAI TRUNG THU (VIETNAMESE-FRENCH 1906-1980)
Portrait of a Woman with Fan, 1956
ink and gouache on silk laid on board
19.5 x 11 cm (7 5/8 x 4 3/8 in.)
signed, stamped with artist's seal and dated in Chinese lower right

LOT NOTES
Along with Vu Cao Dam and Le Pho, Mai Trung Thu is one of the pillars of Vietnamese modernism of the 20th Century. Born in An Durong, Thu was one of the graduates of the first entering class of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de l`Indochine in Hanoi. Like Vu Cao Dam and Le Pho, Thu emigrated to Paris in 1937, where he would develop a successful art career. The present work, Portrait of a Woman with Fan, displays Mai Thu's delicate and sinuous draftsmanship, muted palette, and sensous subject matter, for which he was so well known.