Do Quang Em

Private Collection, USA

The work is in good condition overall. No restoration has been detected under ultraviolet light inspection. Framed.
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"Serious and profound, full of shadow, and dark emptiness, Em's paintings are within the Vietnamese context profoundly radical works. Em stands outside the mainstream of post 1975 Vietnamese painting- a Southerner, a Buddhist, a photo-realist. Em turned his back on Northern lyricism and its tradition based on modernism and leapfrogged the early French modernism of Matisse and Cezanne to embrace the aesthetics of the Renaissance and 17th century Dutch painting."

Jeffrey Hantover, Out From The Shadows: Do Quang Em, Galerie La Vong Limited, Hong Kong, 2001, pg. 13.