{"id":1581,"date":"2022-03-18T12:02:38","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T12:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/boitran.com\/en\/?page_id=1581"},"modified":"2026-01-05T08:59:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T08:59:18","slug":"famille-sur-la-plage-family-on-the-beach","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/boitran.com\/vi\/gallery\/private-sales\/famille-sur-la-plage-family-on-the-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Famille sur la plage (Family on the Beach)"},"content":{"rendered":"

< PRIVATE SALES<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\"Boi\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\tBOI TRAN (VIETNAM, B. 1957)<\/strong>
\nFamille sur la plage (Family on the Beach)\n\t

Price on request<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\tDETAILS<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCollapse<\/i><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\tBoi Tran (Vietnam, B. 1957)
\nFamille sur la plage (Family on the Beach)
\nsigned and dated ‘Btran 2010’ (lower right)
\noil on canvas
\n150 x 150 cm. (59 1<\/sup>\/16<\/sub> x 59 1<\/sup>\/16<\/sub>)
\nPainted between 2008-2010\n\t\t\t\t\tPROVENANCE<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tExpand<\/i><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t

Private Collection<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\tFURTHER DETAILS<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tExpand<\/i><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t

This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by Boi Tran<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\tLITERATURE<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCollapse<\/i><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t

In Famille sur la plage (Family on the Beach)<\/em>, Boi Tran presents not an imagined scene, but a deeply personal meditation on motherhood, memory, and enduring presence. Painted between 2008 and 2010, the work depicts the artist herself standing with her two children at the edge of the sea. What appears, at first glance, as a serene familial tableau quietly unfolds as a work shaped by remembrance and loss.<\/p>\n

The central female figure, calm, upright, and steady, anchors the composition both visually and emotionally. She holds the hands of her two children, forming a continuous line of touch that binds the group together. The figures are rendered with characteristic restraint: simplified forms, softened expressions, and a deliberate absence of dramatic gesture. This composure is not emotional distance, but control, an insistence on dignity in the face of what cannot be undone.<\/p>\n

The boy at her side represents the artist’s son, who passed away in 2002 in the United States while saving another person’s life. His presence in the painting is therefore not literal, but spiritual. He stands here not as memory frozen in grief, but as part of an enduring family unit, held, protected, and remembered. The black inner tube beside him, circular and enclosing, subtly evokes ideas of rescue, passage, and the fragile boundary between safety and loss, without ever becoming illustrative.<\/p>\n

The sea behind the figures assumes a heightened symbolic role. It stretches wide and inscrutable, a space of both separation and continuity. In Boi Tran’s visual language, the ocean often signifies longing and distance; here, it also becomes a horizon of remembrance. The family stands firmly on the shore, barefoot and grounded, as if asserting presence against the vastness that lies beyond.<\/p>\n

Despite its personal origins, Famille sur la plage avoids sentimentality. Tran’s measured palette and composed structure transform private grief into a universal reflection on maternal strength and quiet endurance. The painting does not narrate tragedy; it preserves connection. In doing so, it invites viewers into a space where love persists beyond time, and where stillness becomes an act of remembrance.<\/p>\n\t

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