VU CAO DAM 武高谈 (VIETNAM AND FRANCE, 1908-2000) ECOLE DES BEAUX-ARTS DE L’INDOCHINE (INDOCHINA FINE ARTS COLLEGE), 7TH PROMOTION (1931) Portrait of a young lady with a blue scarf Circa 1950 Mixed media on silk laid on cardboard Signed to the lower right 33 x 23,8 cm Provenance: From a French Riviera Estate, France, where Vu Cao Dam has been working and living. Notes: 1. Biography: Vu Cao Dam was born in Hanoi in 1908 to a Catholic family of the local bourgeoisie. In 1926, he joined the Fine Arts School of Hanoi (Ecole des Beaux-Arts de l’Indochine), where he studied the art of painting and drawing and from which he graduated in 1931. With the support of his professor, Victor Tardieu (1870-1937), Vu Cao Dam participated in the 1931 edition of Paris International Exhibition following which he settled in France. He was, above all, known for his sculptures, which brought him numerous commissions upon his arrival in Paris. Marked by the Western avant-garde (Fauvism and the Paris School), Vu Cao Dam’s creations lie on the edges of Asian traditions in general, and Vietnamese and Chinese in particular. He was one of the four famous Vietnamese painters who emigrated in Paris, the others being Le Thi Luu (1911-1988), Mai Trung Thu (1906-1981) and Le Pho (1907-2001). 2. Comparison: This painting seems to belong to a series of portraits of young women of similar size painted in the early 1950s. For a portrait of this series at public auction, see Christie’s Hong Kong July 11, 2020, lot 251, painted in 1952 and sold for HKD525.000 BP incl. [INTERNET KEYWORDS] CHINA, CHINESE, QING, ANTIQUE, CERAMIC, PORCELAIN, PAINTING, SCROLL, JADE, DYNASTIE, JAPANESE, VIETNAMESE