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Shanghai Pujiang Southeast Asia Culture and Art Exchange Center President Zhang Zhi Yong Celebrates Boi Tran’s Solo Exhibition: Le Rêve Qui Veille

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On the special occasion of Boi Tran’s 60 years of age as well as her solo exhibition: Le Rêve Qui Veille on 26 October 2017, Mr and Mrs Zhang Zhi Yong, President of Shanghai Pujiang Southeast Asia Culture and Art Exchange Center comes to celebrate and share the pleasure and honour to be presented in this special event.

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Christie’s: Se Souvenir Des Belles Choses – A Curated Collection of Vietnamese Art

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On this special occasion, Christie’s, for the very first time, published a separate Vietnamese Art Vanity – Se Souvenir Des Belles Choses: A Curated Collection of Vietnamese Art. Se Souvenir Des Belles Choses: A Curated Collection of Vietnamese Art is one of Thuc Doan / Bem’s publications as an art translator and advisor has made the catalog itself, the exhibition and the sale a total success which she shared with all the Christie’s teams and us.

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Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown: Vivacious in Vietnam

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Boi Tran is a painter and something of a throwback, an anomaly, a creature from another, earlier time in the life of the onetime Imperial City. She also cooks, magnificently from a repertoire of Imperial Hue-era dishes numbering over 100. She spoils all of us with a succession of dishes. Small, flavorful, and beautifully presented. And that culinary tradition, which gave Hue its reputation as a food capital, continues today.

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Thanh Nien News: Complete Transcendence

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“Mother and Children” fetched approximately USD 10,000 at Christie’s Hong Kong on May 26, 2013. Boi Tran is only the second Vietnamese female painter, the other being Le Thi Luu (1911 – 1988), selected by the two prestigious international auction houses Sotheby’s and Christie’s.

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Ngo Manh Duc (B. 1941), son of Le Thi Luu (Vietnamese, 1911-1988) born on 1 January 1941, which he enunciates as “1.1.41” with his constant smile, speaking softly and slowly which never fails to grab the listener’s attention. He was brought up in a wonderful atmosphere of painters and intellectuals (often of Vietnamese origin), and this only helped to cement the ideals and traditions of family, close friends and kinships.

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Zhang Zhi Yong — President, Shanghai Pujiang Southeast Asia Culture and Art Exchange Center where “Nguyen Trung Works” published on 26 December 2020, Mrs Zhang Jing celebrated Boi Tran's Solo Exhibition: Le Rêve Qui Veille, 26 October 2017.

Shanghai Pujiang Southeast Asia Culture and Art Exchange Center President Zhang Zhi Yong Celebrates Boi Tran’s Solo Exhibition: Le Rêve Qui Veille

Boi Tran: “Le Rêve Qui Veille” by Christie’s Senior Expert Jean-François Hubert

William Adams, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities and a Vietnam veteran, moderates a panel discussion, “The Troops: A View from the Front Lines” on Thursday, April 28, 2016, at the LBJ Presidential Library. The panel discussion was part of the LBJ library’s three-day Vietnam War Summit.

LBJ Library photo by Jay Godwin 04/28/2016

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Christie’s: Se Souvenir Des Belles Choses – A Curated Collection of Vietnamese Art

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Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown: Vivacious in Vietnam

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“Thank you for opening your house to us but furthermore, your heart” – Gilbert Montagné

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Boi Tran, Ladies and Flowers by Nguyen Trong Tao

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Prologue by Nguyen Trung on the Exhibition of Paintings: Hue

Prologue by Buu Y and Epilogue by Trinh Cong Son on the Grand Opening of Boi Tran Art Gallery in 1995