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Two Young Girls on the Balustrade
September 26, 2026 at 1:05 AM
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“Thiếu nữ Huế (Hue Girl)” aka “Lady” by Mai Trung Thứ (Mai Trung Thu) (Vietnamese) – Oil on canvas / 1934 – Singapore Art Museum #WomenInArt #art #artText #artwork #PortraitofaLady #MaiTrungThứ #MaiTrungThu #BlueskyArt #SingaporeArtMuseum #VietnameseArtist #VietnameseArt #1930s #PortraitofaWoman
Painted in 1934, Thiếu nữ Huế (Hue Girl) — sometimes titled Lady — embodies Vietnamese artist Mai Trung Thứ’s refined synthesis of French academic training and Vietnamese poetics. A graduate of the École des Beaux-Arts de l’Indochine in Hanoi, Thứ moved to France, joining a generation of artists who navigated identity amid colonial modernity. His women, clothed in flowing áo dài and framed in muted tones, became emblems of cultural continuity in a rapidly changing world. Seated on a low reddish wooden bench, a young Vietnamese woman wears a high-collared, long-sleeved áo dài in pale grey. Her head tilts slightly to our left, eyes turned softly to the same side rather than toward us. Her warm light-brown skin is modeled gently; dark hair is swept up in a neat chignon (not loose on the shoulders). Her right hand rests across her lap as the left arm extends back with the hand relaxed over the bench edge, fingers loose. Her long tunic drapes over a layered skirt, its hem pooling at the seat. Behind her is a flat, textured ochre field with no drapery or furniture other than the bench. The mood is quiet and inward for a poised, thoughtful, and reserved portrait. The flattened ochre ground and restrained palette frame the unidentified sitter as a self-contained presence, while the delicate modeling and dignified pose express a tenderness central to his portraits. Through subtle elegance rather than overt resistance, Thứ bridged East and West, giving modern Vietnamese painting its lyrical voice. As art historian T.K. Sabapathy observed, Thứ’s portraits are “poised between nostalgia and renewal.” In “Hue Girl,” that balance endures like a serene vision of womanhood and homeland, distilled into light, fabric, and memory.
October 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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La Calligraphie, (1941)
May 15, 2026 at 12:03 AM
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Musicienne à la guitare by Mai Trung Thu (Vietnamese) - Ink and colors on silk / 1972 - Almine Rech (Matignon, Paris) #womeninart #art #vietnameseartist #artwork #painting #silkart #bsky.art #artoftheday #bskyart #vietnamese #vietnameseart #artbsky #maitrungthu #maithu
A woman sits cross-legged playing a đàn nguyệt (moon-shaped lute) with a large round body and long thin neck. She wears an ao dai light green silk tunic with dark green pants plus an orange headband. The bemused look on her face conveys attentive skill and joy together.
December 28, 2024 at 5:51 PM
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La jeune femme de Hué, (1937)
June 9, 2026 at 11:59 PM
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#MaiTrungThu, The Cage, 1956 #painting
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May 2, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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La Mariée (The Bride) by Mai Trung Thừ (Vietnamese) - Oil on canvas / 1935 - Musée Cernuschi (Paris, France) #womeninart #oilpainting #art #maithu #MuséeCernuschi #bride #artwork #MaiThừ #fineart #womensart #portraitofawoman #vietnameseart #MaiTrungThừ #Mariée #vietnamese #portrait #beauty #painting
Born in 1906 in northern Vietnam, a French “colony” at the time, Mai Trung Thứ, or Mai Thứ, was was one of the graduates of the 1st (1930) class of the École des Beaux-Arts de l'Indochine in Hanoi (Vietnam). Thừ was the son of a wealthy dignitary and was lucky not to be the oldest of his siblings, and, therefore, to be able to decide his destiny and his job. Five years after graduating, 1935, he completed this richly dressed bride using traditional and academic techniques. In the 3/4-length portrait with pistachio green background, a young Vietnamese woman stands expressionless staring straight ahead at the artist. Her hands a clasped together at her waist, but hidden from our view by the extremely long sleeves of a beautiful scarlet bridal Áo dài (tunic adorned with Vietnamese motifs and wide colorful stripes at the ends of each sleeve. A tiger orange colored blouse (possibly Áo bà ba) sits tight up to the neckline. The gown has an attached elegant patterned mint green stole with elaborate patterns and flowers in shades of red and blue. Small colored dangle earrings are the only jewelry seen; however, it is the azure blue conical khăn vành dây hat on her head that lets just a few strands of her black hair peek out. Thứ lived and worked mostly in France. His main subjects were women, children and daily life, incorporating some traditional Vietnamese conceptions about fine arts and folk arts. This is one of the few oil paintings completed by him as most of his art are silk paintings with gouache, by rubbing and colours applied as solids.
January 19, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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La toilette, (1946)
August 23, 2026 at 12:23 AM
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Jeune femme couchée , (1964)
April 13, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Jeune femme couchée , (1964)
April 13, 2026 at 5:50 AM
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La jeune femme de Hué, (1937)
June 10, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Jeune femme se coiffant Vers les années.
February 7, 2026 at 2:15 AM