VIETNAM NOSTALGIA the lacquer paintings of Bùi Hữu Hùng
Bùi Hữu Hùng, MOTHER AND CHILD ON RED GROUND, 2000. Sơn mài on wood panel with gold leaf and crushed eggshell.
On view this season
MẸ VÀ CON / NỀN ĐỎ
Sơn mài trên gỗ
MOTHER AND CHILD ON RED GROUND
Lacquer on wood
122 X 122 cm
2000
The Vietnam Nostalgia Collection

The Vietnam
Nostalgia
Collection

Forty-eight lacquer paintings by Bùi Hữu Hùng. A coherent body of work by one of Vietnam's contemporary lacquer masters, documented in the Vietnam Nostalgia monograph published with the artist in 2000 and now presented for the first time as a single private collection.

Selected works Catalogue · forty-eight works
Bùi Hữu Hùng, THE EMPRESS, 1995. Sơn mài on wood panel with gold leaf and crushed eggshell.
TK: HOÀNG HẬU
Sơn mài trên gỗ
THE EMPRESS
Lacquer on wood
122 X 122 cm (48 X 48 in)
1995
Bùi Hữu Hùng, STILL LIFE WITH ANCESTRAL VESSELS, 1996. Sơn mài on wood panel with gold leaf and crushed eggshell.
TK: TĨNH VẬT CỔ VẬT
Sơn mài trên gỗ
STILL LIFE WITH ANCESTRAL VESSELS
Lacquer on wood
122 X 122 cm (48 X 48 in)
1996
Bùi Hữu Hùng, STILL LIFE WITH ANCIENT SCRIPT, 1994. Sơn mài on wood panel with gold leaf and crushed eggshell.
TK: TĨNH VẬT CỔ TỰ
Sơn mài trên gỗ
STILL LIFE WITH ANCIENT SCRIPT
Lacquer on wood
122 X 122 cm (48 X 48 in)
1994

Each work is a sơn mài on wood panel, signed and accompanied by the artist's Certificate of Authenticity. Inquire for full provenance and condition documentation.

Essay

The Lacquer Inheritance

A short history of Vietnamese sơn mài, from village workshop to modern painting.

Sơn mài occupies a singular place in modern painting. There is no exact equivalent in any other tradition. Built in many layers over weeks or months, then sanded back to reveal what was deliberately hidden, it is a way of making an image that does not sit on a surface but becomes one.

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