Rare Vintage 1935 Vietnamese Drawing Signed “Côn” Framed Under Glass: Boat Dock
As shown. See whole photos. Belonged to my maternal grandparents. Probably picked up during a trip to San Francisco, as indicated on back: Ivanoff’s Objects D’Art Berkeley, CA. Ready to hang. Tasteful bamboo frame. Listing another to match. 12” x 9.25” x .5” From the Monographie dessinée de l'Indochine, Cochinchine, Tome 4.Artistic identity of Vietnam in the 1930s shined as Monographie dessinée de l'Indochine provided impressive pencil and lithograph drawing collection from Gia Dinh Art School.In 1935, in conjunction with a publishing house in Paris, the Vietnamese students of the École d'Art de Gia-Dinh in southern Vietnam and its French director Jules Besson released a sumptuous illustrated folio entitled Monographie Dessinée de l'Indochine intended to provide readers in Europe with a “slice of life” in the distant exotic colony.