VietNamNet Bridge - The exhibition “Sun Rising over the Mekong: 50 Years of Vietnamese Painting”, which features iconic painters trained at the École des Beaux-Arts de l’Indochine in Hanoi, will be held by Raquelle Azran Vietnamese Contemporary Fine Art in London from November 3-9. 



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Vinh Phoi "Notre Dame", 1962. Photo courtesy of Raquelle Azran Vietnamese Contemporary Fine Art



The École des Beaux-Arts de l’Indochine was founded in 1925 by colleagues of Matisseand later renamed The Vietnam Fine Arts University.

The works by 31 Vietnamese artists offer an intimate glance into the heady, artistic milieu of Vietnam then and now. Participating artists include Nguyen Tu Nghiem (1922 – 2016), Vinh Phoi (1937 – 2017), Hoang Tich Chu (1912 – 2003), Tran Huu Chat (born 1933), and Phung Pham (born 1934).

Raquelle Azran is a collector and museum curator specializing (since 1991) in Contemporary Vietnamese Fine Art. Museum exhibitions include the Wilfrid Museum, Israel (2002, 2005) and the National Fine Arts Museum, Vietnam (2007).

Venue: Guy Peppiatt/Stephen Ongpin Gallery, 6 Mason’s Yard, Duke Street, St James’s, London, UK.

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