{"id":1605,"date":"2022-03-18T12:59:15","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T12:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/boitran.com\/en\/?page_id=1605"},"modified":"2026-01-05T06:23:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T06:23:33","slug":"grace-au-lotus-grace-with-a-lotus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/boitran.com\/vi\/gallery\/private-sales\/grace-au-lotus-grace-with-a-lotus\/","title":{"rendered":"Gr\u00e2ce au lotus (Grace with a Lotus)"},"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>
\nGr\u00e2ce au lotus (Grace with a Lotus)\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)
\nGr\u00e2ce au lotus (Grace with a Lotus)
\nsigned and dated ‘Btran 2019’ (lower right)
\noil on canvas
\n130 x 100 cm. (51 3<\/sup>\/16<\/sub> x 39 3<\/sup>\/8<\/sub> in.)
\nPainted in 2019\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

Gr\u00e2ce au lotus (Grace with a Lotus)<\/em> is situated within Boi Tran’s sustained investigation of the female figure as a site of cultural continuity rather than narrative expression. The composition adopts a strictly frontal orientation, recalling the axial symmetry of devotional imagery in both East Asian Buddhist painting and Western icon traditions, yet it deliberately suspends explicit religious reference.<\/p>\n

The lotus, centrally positioned and held close to the chest, functions as a structural and symbolic hinge. Rather than operating as a didactic Buddhist emblem, it mediates between body and ground, serving to stabilise the composition and to articulate an internalised, secularised spirituality. The figure’s elongated proportions and restrained gesture emphasise stillness over action, presence over event.<\/p>\n

The chromatic economy, dominated by warm ochres and a muted white, compresses spatial depth and reinforces the planar surface, a strategy that echoes the visual logic of Vietnamese lacquer painting translated into oil. In this work, transcendence is displaced by duration; meaning arises through formal repetition, frontal address, and the quiet persistence of cultural form.<\/p>\n\t

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