Tuesday, October 4 at Lynda Trouve, a silk painting by Vu Cao Dam (1908-2000) will be put up for auction.
The painting is called Hope. Created circa 1947-1949, has been kept since 1950 in the family of Raymonde Dien who received it as a gift.
The touching story of a young girl from Tourangelle, an activist in the French Communist Party, who laid down on the railroad tracks at Saint-Pierre-des-Corps to stop an armed convoy that would attack Indochina. She was less than twenty years old and had just been married. Sentenced to several months in prison, she can count on the support of figures from the worlds of politics, philosophy, religion, art and literature, including Louis Aragon, Jean-Louis Barrault, Jean- Paul Sartre and Paul Eluard. She was released on December 24, 1950, and was presented this painting by members of the Vietnamese Association in France during a ceremony at the Vélodrome d’hiver.
A place steeped in history, a wonderfully symbolic painting depicting two women, one Vietnamese and one French, war victims, and a young mother holding her son. The baby’s body, arms and eyes are directed towards a dove, a symbol of peace. Hope of happiness in the distance…
Born in Hanoi, speaking French, trained at the Indochina Fine Arts College, both in painting and sculpture, Vu Cao Dam participated in an Exhibition held in Paris in 1931. He decided to settle in the capital, before settling in the south of France in the early 1950s.
The estimate of the work is 200,000 – 250,000 EUR.
Source: Gazette Drouot
