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THANG TRẦN PHỀNH (1895-1973)

Le chef du village à cheval demandant son chemin, circa 1934 Charcoal and white highlights on paper, signed and dated lower right 75 x 51,5 cm - 29 1/2 x 51 1/2 in. Thang Trần Phềnh (1895-1973), also known as Trần Văn Bình, sometimes nicknamed Đạt Siêu, received a traditional education from a father of Chinese origin and a Vietnamese mother, respecting the principles of Confucianism and learned French at an early age. Gifted with a natural talent for drawing, encouraged by his parents, he became selftaught and, in 1923, won first prize in the fine arts exhibition of the Vietnamese Enlightenment Association of Tiến Đức. In 1925, he narrowly failed the first entrance examination to the Indochina School of Fine Arts. Then second on the waiting list, he was allowed to attend certain courses as an auditor. The following year, at the age of 31, he joined the ranks of the second class. At the instigation of Victor Tardieu, the school’s director, he exhibited with some of his fellow students in 1929 at the Salon de l’Art Colonial organized by the Salon des Artistes Français at the Grand Palais in Paris. In 1931, he took part in the Exposition Coloniale in Paris with a work entitled La partie de cartes. The following year, his work appeared in three successive exhibitions organized by Agindo - the Indochina Economic Agency - in Paris. It was also in 1932 that he graduated from his School in Hanoi, at the same time as artists Vũ Cao Đàm and Tô Ngọc Vân - the first Vietnamese director appointed to head the Indochina School of Fine Arts - following in the footsteps of Victor Tardieu and Evariste Jonchère. Thang Trần Phềnh then turned to theater, founding the Đồng Ấu troupe and directing his efforts towards enhancing stage sets, costumes and props. In theater as in painting, Thang Trần Phềnh is involved in transmitting the memory of his country, its history and culture. His rare work, which focuses on traditional rural scenes in Vietnam, is a true testimony to the past. Sources: Fonds Victor Tardieu, INHA, espace Jacques-Doucet, archives 125/5-9. Triển lãm Thang Trần Phềnh: Bắt gặp quá khứ trong hiện tại, Bằng Lăng, Thể thao & Văn hóa, August 29, 2022 Cố họa sĩ Thang Trần Phềnh: Tài hoa và độc đáo, Nguyệt Hà, Công An Nhân Dân, September 1st, 2022 In the early 1890s, a family of shopkeepers settled in the Hanoi region of Indochina. It was probably during one of the exhibitions organized by the School of Fine Arts from 1929, or at one of the fairs in which its students were then actively participating, that they acquired these two paintings by Thang Thang Trần Phềnh framed by Gadin in the 1930s. Kept by the family as they moved, first to Vietnam and then to France, they were passed down through generations. Le chef du village à cheval demandant son chemin and Le lettré lisant devant les villageois are two silk paintings produced in the early 1930s. As usual, Thang Trần Phềnhset out to freeze animated scenes, with a constant concern to immortalize the daily routine of traditional life. These two paintings attest to the deliberate and distinctive character of this painter who, unlike many of his classmates renowned for posed portraits or composed scenes, demonstrated true originality in the choice of his compositions, featuring various characters in attitudes taken from life. These two rare examples of this painter’s work probably come from an exhibition held around 1934-1935 in Hanoi.

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THANG TRẦN PHỀNH (1895-1973)

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