Trinh Tuan - Previous Sales
Trinh Tuan (born 1961, Hanoi) graduated from the Hanoi Industrial Fine Arts College in 1985 and received his M.A. at Hanoi Fine Arts Institute in 2000. His lacquer paintings are aesthetically rich and his artwork evokes curiosity and interest. Whether two figures are joined in an embrace or depicted with their backs against each other, Tuan has a remarkable ability to tell a story about emotions - love, loneliness, and betrayal. Trinh Tuan is adored by his students and rightfully honored as one of the top lacquer artists in Vietnam. Many of Trinh Tuan's followers claim that his sense of humor is equally balanced with his sensitivity toward human emotion. Apart from being meticulous and labor-intensive works, Trinh Tuan's paintings are admired internationally for their beauty.
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Trinh Tuan - Meeting Marilyn Monroe
Lacquer, pigments, eggshell on wood
(120cm x 145cm)
The sentence above is intentionally wrong gramatically and should be "vống say tóc phụ nữ các kiểu" which roughly translated means "We curve and dry all women's hairstyles" but when the word "toc" (hair) is omitted to convey a humorous meaning of "we curve and dry women into many shapes and forms." This writing often appeared on pavements in front of beauty salons in Hanoi before the Vietnam War.
Private Collection - San Francisco
