The book features works by Bui Xuan Phai (1920-1988), mostly on paper and executed between 1956 and 1988. English text, soft cover, 26 x 26 cm, 75 pages, including 160 colour plates.
Published by Thavibu Gallery, 2006, ISBN 9789749495186
CONTENT
Foreword by Jorn Middelborg
Bui Xuan Phai – The Artist of Hanoi by Shireen Naziree
Remembering Bui Xuan Phai by Van Duong Thanh
The Streets of Hanoi
Family
Portraits of Van Duong Thanh by Van Duong Duc Son
Portraits of Friends and Colleagues
Other Portraits
Nudes
Village Life
Celebrations
About this book: Survey of final years of the brilliant artistic career of one of Vietnam’s most renowned painters, drawn from the collection of his friend and fellow artist, Van Duong Thanh. Over a period of 20 years until his death in 1988, Phai sketched, drew and painted many portraits of Thanh; these along with several woodbock prints and some of his iconic paintings of the old streets of his beloved Hanoi comprise one of the most impressive exhibitions of Phai’s work to have been staged outside of Vietnam, since his death