La Ba Quan, Untitled, Undated
Oil on canvas
80 x 60 cm (visible), 99 x 79 x 3 cm (framed)
Condition: Fair, foxing and dust
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La Ba Quan (b. 1976) is a contemporary Vietnamese artist known for his distinct, impasto paintings of men on the streets and in the cafes of Hanoi. Quan turns his sitters, who are often haggard-looking, into haunting portraits that convey angst, hardship and nostalgia. He received his MFA from the Hanoi University of Fine Arts in 2010 and he currently lives and works in Hanoi, Vietnam.
“…There are some blissful laughs but people cannot conceal the past austerity and other grievous aspects. I have met many faces, from luxurious places to the end corners of many streets... Their wrinkles can show many portraits of indefinites as they are telling the world with their wordless stories that are finished only when men and women will not reserve their misery or bliss in life. I have painted them, depicting their joyful or sorrowful conditions and trying to narrate their living stories. Beside the shadowy smoke I feel that they and I are one, and together we tell the present tales of my life."
- La Ba Quan
(Photographed in September 2023)
Oil on canvas
80 x 60 cm (visible), 99 x 79 x 3 cm (framed)
Condition: Fair, foxing and dust
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La Ba Quan (b. 1976) is a contemporary Vietnamese artist known for his distinct, impasto paintings of men on the streets and in the cafes of Hanoi. Quan turns his sitters, who are often haggard-looking, into haunting portraits that convey angst, hardship and nostalgia. He received his MFA from the Hanoi University of Fine Arts in 2010 and he currently lives and works in Hanoi, Vietnam.
“…There are some blissful laughs but people cannot conceal the past austerity and other grievous aspects. I have met many faces, from luxurious places to the end corners of many streets... Their wrinkles can show many portraits of indefinites as they are telling the world with their wordless stories that are finished only when men and women will not reserve their misery or bliss in life. I have painted them, depicting their joyful or sorrowful conditions and trying to narrate their living stories. Beside the shadowy smoke I feel that they and I are one, and together we tell the present tales of my life."
- La Ba Quan
(Photographed in September 2023)
Oil on canvas
80 x 60 cm (visible), 99 x 79 x 3 cm (framed)
Condition: Fair, foxing and dust
-
La Ba Quan (b. 1976) is a contemporary Vietnamese artist known for his distinct, impasto paintings of men on the streets and in the cafes of Hanoi. Quan turns his sitters, who are often haggard-looking, into haunting portraits that convey angst, hardship and nostalgia. He received his MFA from the Hanoi University of Fine Arts in 2010 and he currently lives and works in Hanoi, Vietnam.
“…There are some blissful laughs but people cannot conceal the past austerity and other grievous aspects. I have met many faces, from luxurious places to the end corners of many streets... Their wrinkles can show many portraits of indefinites as they are telling the world with their wordless stories that are finished only when men and women will not reserve their misery or bliss in life. I have painted them, depicting their joyful or sorrowful conditions and trying to narrate their living stories. Beside the shadowy smoke I feel that they and I are one, and together we tell the present tales of my life."
- La Ba Quan
(Photographed in September 2023)