Vietnamese paintings displayed at China Art Museum

The works, mostly in silk, lacquer and oil, are from Vietnamese modern works, created between the 1940s and 2000s, in Shanghai collections.

A jury composed of museum staff and members of the Shanghai Southeast Asian Culture and Art Exchange Center, the organiser of the event, selected 80 paintings by 20 artists.

Vung Sen (Provincial Village), a lacquer work by Vietnamese artist Nguyen Gia Tri, is on display at the China Art Museum in Shanghai. (Photo: thethaovanhoa.vn)

Featured works are from artists Nguyen Gia Tri, Le Pho, Vu Cao Dam, Mai Trung Thu and Nguyen Tu Nghiem, who graduated from the Fine Arts College of Indochina, which opened in 1925 in Hanoi. 

Tri’s Ban Lang (Provincial Village), a lacquer work, was created in 1940. In October, the piece was part of Sotheby’s Hong Kong auction of Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Art.

The Travelling 2017 exhibition also features paintings and sculptures by artists from Australia, Serbia, Mongolia and China.

The showcase will run through March 2018 at the museum. It is expected to attract more than four million viewers.