Danh họa Tô Ngọc Vân

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MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY SOUTH EAST ASIAN PAINTINGS
59
To Ngoc Van
1906-1954
ANGKOR TEMPLE
Estimate 12,000 — 14,000 SGD
7,923 - 9,244USD

DETAILS & CATALOGUING

MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY SOUTH EAST ASIAN PAINTINGS
16 SEPTEMBER 2007 | 11:00 AM SGT
SINGAPORE

To Ngoc Van
1906-1954

ANGKOR TEMPLE
signed and dated '36 lower right
oil on canvas
37 by 46.5cm.; 14½ by 18¼in.

PROVENANCE
Acquired directly from the artist by Docteur Chabaud, a French doctor in Indochina (Public Health Service from 1929-1962), thence by descent to the present owner.

Nhà đấu giá: Sotheby's
Phiên đấu giá: Sotheby's Chủ nhật 16/9/2007
Lot: S23059
Ngày giờ: 11:50 - 14/09/2018
Nhóm sản phẩm: Tranh
Mã hiện vật: 20893
Tên hiện vật: Đền Angkor
Nguồn gốc: Tô Ngọc Vân (1906-1954)
Niên đại: 1936
Chất liệu: Sơn dầu trên toan
Kích thước: 37x46,5
Giá ước lượng: 12.000 - 14.000 SGD

To Ngoc Van, "Angkor Temple," 1937, oil
Buying To Ngoc Van paintings – Highest Prices Paid: Artist Bio & images follow:

TO NGOC VAN (Vietnamese, 1906-1954).

The painter, writer and revolutionary To Ngoc Van was born in Hanoi in 1906. He was one of the first graduates of the Ecole des Beaux Arts de Indochine in 1931. Over time he was increasingly influenced by the work of Paul Gauguin, and his art became characterized by delicacy of form and brilliant use of color.

During the 1950’s he oversaw the establishment of the new state school for the arts in Viet-Minh territory. To Ngoc Van taught both drawing and Marxist-Leninist principles. The school and its students produced paintings, posters, stamps and other visual emblems. In his writings To Ngoc Van often discussed the issues raised by the role of an artist in a political context.

1947 a essay “Propaganda Art and Art” To Ngoc Van commented:

“Propaganda art is not art because it expresses a political purpose, raises political slogans, delineates a political path for the people to follow.”

In his 1949 essay “Study or Not?” he wrote:

“Here lies the principal point, the torment of my soul: how to make the self that serves the nation and the masses and the self that serves art — the artist cannot forget this responsibility — not come into conflict or, even worse, betray one another.”

To Ngoc Van died in 1954 during the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, after which the French were forced out of Viet Nam.