Paris – Boi Tran Garden

PostArt, Auction, Christie's, Exhibition, Interview, Storiesby Dinh Thuc Doan Tran

From Lacquer to Light: A French Collector’s Journey Begins with Boi Tran

French collector Melchior Dejouany once called discovering pictorial lacquer “one of the most beautiful revelations” of his life. That revelation began with a painting by Boi Tran, luminous, quiet, and unforgettable, seen at Christie’s Hong Kong in 2012. In her layered technique, he found something deeper: feeling, stillness, soul. Her work opened not just a door into Vietnamese art, but into a story, one that continues across generations, bound by vision, tenderness, and the quiet power of beauty that travels and connects across oceans.

PostArt, Auction, Christie's, Exhibition, Storiesby Dinh Thuc Doan Tran

Christie’s Paris | The Phoenix Glue and the Broken Silk Thread: Important Vietnamese Artworks from the Melchior Dejouany Collection

The Melchior Dejouany Collection showcases the brilliance of Vietnamese masters: Nguyen Gia Tri’s layered lacquer dreams, Le Pho’s elegant silks, and Vu Cao Dam’s poetic forms. And yet, it began with a single painting by Boi Tran, a quiet work of lacquer that spoke not of grandeur, but of grace. It was her voice, contemporary, contemplative, deeply human, that first drew him in. Among legends, her presence is not loud; it is luminous.

PostArt, Auction, Christie's, Exhibition, Storiesby Dinh Thuc Doan Tran

Christie’s Paris | Women in Art From the XVIth to the XXIst Century, or Boi Tran: When a Singular Presence from Vietnam Does Not Remain in the Shadows

In June 2021, Christie's Paris presented its first sale dedicated entirely to women artists, spanning five centuries. Within this panorama, a single Vietnamese female artist appeared: Boi Tran. Her lacquer work was not positioned as an exception, but as part of a continuity, a presence already formed, entering a wider field of visibility. In a sale conceived to illuminate those long in the shadows, her work did not emerge as a rediscovery, but as a quiet unfolding.

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