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# FA-141 SOLD
Jean
Volang, (Vietnamese / French 1921-2005)
Landscape of Port , Oil painting on
canvas,
20" X 26" in Original gilt frame, size with frame: 27" x 33"
signed LL "Volang", also titled and inscribed on the back "Brittany, at
the Red Light house".
Jean
Volang, born in 1921, the second of his
father’s fourteen sons, studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts
in
Hanoi, and tought there for sometime. In 1946 he became a political
prisoner of the first Ho Chi Minh regime, but escaped to Hong Kong
where for three years he continued his work and study. In 1949 he moved
to Paris. Volang was a former Ambassador at Large during the Diem
regime. Volang won the “Grand Prix du Salon Unique
d’Indochine” in 1943 he went on to exhibit his work
around
the world, many of his works are in museums and distinguished private
collections around the world.