Mai Trung Thu (1906-1980) was a Vietnamese-French painter. He was one of the graduates of the 1st (1925 - 1930) entering class of the École des Beaux-Arts de l'Indochine in Hanoi. He 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. All his work, apart from a few oil paintings, is silk painting with gouache, by rubbing and colours applied as solids

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La famille

La leçon de lecture Garçon au Travail (Studying)

A couple with the lady holding a fan Mother and child 1952

Child reading a book

Les Douze Enfants (Twelve Children)

The Poet1955

La recréation

Mother and sleeping child 1956

Girl playing flute

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La toilette (Powder Room) 1974

Lady at the window

Nénuphars, 1977

Nude

Jeunes filles allongees

Nude

Mere et enfants (Mother and children) 1950

Poireaux, tomates et aulx

Still life (Tinh vat) Little stream

Les quatre musiciennes (the four musicians)

Enfants jouant aux billes, 1977Seated lady, 1962

Jeune fille à sa toilette, 1954

Two girls under the cherry blossom tree

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Young girl 1937 (fragment)

Mere et enfants Mother with two children

Enfant endormi Cinq enfants - La lecture

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Mother and daughter

Toilette de la mariée

Toilet of the bride 1965

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Musicians

Quatre filles (couture)

Quatre filles (couture)

PaireDeux peintures sur soie encadrées

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Récréation près d’une rivière 1957 (fragment)

Prayer 1958

Vase de forsythias

La Baignade

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Two girls in a landscape 1964

Two ladies

Vue d'un village Vietnamien

The yellow tunic 1966

The yellow tunic 1966 (fragment)

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Taquinerie (Teasing)

Mother with two children

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Young women walking through the rice fields (Fragment) 1942

Poème sur soie (A poem on silk)

Poème sur soie (A poem on silk) fragment

Young woman 1930Jeune fille se coiffant

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Mona Lisa 1961 (fragment)

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Sound: Looking for an wild rose

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