{"id":2116,"date":"2008-10-05T07:08:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-05T07:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/boitran.com\/?p=2116"},"modified":"2026-04-01T07:55:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T07:55:53","slug":"boi-trans-madonna-the-first-time-presented-and-phenomenally-hammered-at-sothebys-in-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boitran.com\/vi\/boi-trans-madonna-the-first-time-presented-and-phenomenally-hammered-at-sothebys-in-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMadonna\u201d c\u1ee7a B\u1ed9i Tr\u00e2n: L\u1ea7n Xu\u1ea5t Hi\u1ec7n \u0110\u1ea7u Ti\u00ean V\u00e0 M\u1ed9t K\u1ebft Qu\u1ea3 \u0110\u00e1ng Ghi Nh\u1eadn T\u1ea1i Sotheby\u2019s, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\t\tBoi Tran’s ‘Madonna’, the First Time Presented and Phenomenally Hammered at Sotheby’s in 2008\t<\/h2>\n

\n\t\t\tSotheby’s Hong Kong\t<\/h5>\n\t

First presented and auctioned at Sotheby’s in 2008, Madonna marks a quiet milestone in Boi Tran’s artistic journey. Rooted in solitude, shaped by grace, the work reflects her devotion to the timeless feminine, serene, wounded, yet transcendent. It was not just her first auctioned painting. It was a moment where the world paused to listen.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\"Boi\n\t\tBoi Tran (Vietnam, B. 1957), Madonna, 2005. Oil on canvas, 129,5 x 100 cm. (51 x 39 1\/4 in.). Sold for HKD 43,750 (USD 6,688) on 5 October 2008 at Sotheby’s Hong Kong. Sotheby’s, Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian, Hong Kong\n\t

Boi Tran’s pictorial work presents profound originality: it is part of an isolated approach, removed from the dominant schools; it expresses the search for universal humanism deeply rooted in a characteristically Vietnamese sensitivity.<\/p>\n

Boi Tran’s paintings and lacquers fit neither into the line of the School of Fine Arts in Hanoi nor into a hypothetical school of the South that might be named “the Gia Dinh school”.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\"Sotheby's\n\t\tSotheby’s Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Paintings Catalogue, Hong Kong, 6 October 2008.\n\t

Born in Hue, in central Vietnam, a city that suffered more than engendered the painful political events of the 20th century, the artist knew nothing of the influences, positive or negative, that nourished “the Schools”. Hers is a solitary body of work, freed from social contingencies, hierarchical obligations, and compromises, that was elaborated.<\/p>\n\t

And her approach inscribes itself in an exacerbated quest for humanism. From this doctrine, which holds as its finality the human being and his\/her unfolding, Boi Tran extolled a quest for the absolute of which she was the medium: mourning, solitude, material hardship, which she was more than touched by, must be sublimated in order to be transcended. And going beyond reality must begin by outreaching oneself. However, the “self” must remain of the earth: the artist is not one of the damned, but an actor of reality; he decorates the concept, just as one sets the table for a feast. Boi Tran’s Eden-like garden in Hue on the Thien An hill bears witness to this: diversity, elegance, but for simplicity as well, a lotus or an epiphyllum, whose owner opens during the night before quickly vanishing, communicates this. The garden would not exist without Boi Tran, yet Boi Tran the painter would not exist without the garden. Double elegance: the model is her subject. A student of the famous painter Nguyen Trung, whom she met in 1995, whose muse she became and for whom she remained a model, she transcended herself. A superficial study would reveal the great similarity of expression between the two artists, whereas, much more subtly, in Boi Tran’s creations the model, the object, in other words transcends itself in as much as the object represented becomes its own subject: it leaves the painting, escapes from the painter and represents itself: the “self” becomes “me” and the transcendence is complete.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\"Boi\n\t\tBoi Tran and her work “Madonna”. Oil on canvas, 129.5 x 100 cm. (51 x 39 1\/4 in.). Estimate HKD 40,000 – 60,000 (USD 5,200 – 7,700); Price Realised HKD 43,750 (USD 6,688) at Sotheby’s Hong Kong: Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian, 5 October 2008\n\t\t\t\t\"Boi\n\t\tBoi Tran and “Lady with Champa Flowers” by Nguyen Trung (Vietnamese, B. 1940), signed and dated\u00a0‘Ng.Trung 95’\u00a0(lower right), lacquer on panel, 120 x 79.5cm (47\u00bc by 31\u00bc in.) in Boi Tran Garden Collection at Sotheby’s Hong Kong: Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian, 5 October 2008\n\t

The work of Boi Tran brings us back to Nguyen Gia Thieu (1741-1798) and to his masterpiece, the “Cung Oan Ngam Khuc” (Sadness of the Palace)<\/p>\n\t“That the wind and the moon be our friends henceforth,
\nM\u01b0\u1ee3n hoa \u0111\u00e0m, \u0111u\u1ed1c tu\u1ec7 l\u00e0m duy\u00ean.
\nG\u00f3p tr\u1ea7n m\u1ed9t b\u01b0\u1edbc thi\u00ean nhi\u00ean,
\nLiving removed from things, that is being immortal here below”\n\t

\u00a9 Sotheby’s Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian, Hong Kong, 5 October 2008<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

L\u1ea7n \u0111\u1ea7u \u0111\u01b0\u1ee3c gi\u1edbi thi\u1ec7u v\u00e0 \u0111\u01b0a ra \u0111\u1ea5u gi\u00e1 t\u1ea1i Sotheby\u2019s n\u0103m 2008, Madonna ghi d\u1ea5u m\u1ed9t kho\u1ea3nh kh\u1eafc l\u1eb7ng trong h\u00e0nh tr\u00ecnh ngh\u1ec7 thu\u1eadt c\u1ee7a B\u1ed9i Tr\u00e2n. \u0110\u01b0\u1ee3c kh\u1edfi sinh t\u1eeb c\u00f4 t\u1ecbch v\u00e0 \u0111\u1ecbnh h\u00ecnh b\u1edfi ph\u1ea9m c\u00e1ch, t\u00e1c ph\u1ea9m ph\u1ea3n chi\u1ebfu s\u1ef1 g\u1eafn b\u00f3 c\u1ee7a b\u00e0 v\u1edbi h\u00ecnh t\u01b0\u1ee3ng n\u1eef t\u00ednh v\u01b0\u1ee3t th\u1eddi gian, t\u0129nh t\u1ea1i, mang v\u1ebft th\u01b0\u01a1ng, m\u00e0 v\u1eabn v\u01b0\u1ee3t l\u00ean.\n\n\u0110\u00f3 kh\u00f4ng ch\u1ec9 l\u00e0 t\u00e1c ph\u1ea9m \u0111\u1ea7u ti\u00ean c\u1ee7a b\u00e0 b\u01b0\u1edbc v\u00e0o kh\u00f4ng gian \u0111\u1ea5u gi\u00e1. M\u00e0 l\u00e0 m\u1ed9t kho\u1ea3nh kh\u1eafc, khi th\u1ebf gi\u1edbi d\u1eebng l\u1ea1i \u0111\u1ec3 l\u1eafng nghe.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7680,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,34,68,9],"tags":[90,91,17,138],"class_list":["post-2116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-auction-stories","category-sothebys","category-stories","tag-boi-tran","tag-boi-tran-art-gallery","tag-boi-tran-garden","tag-sothebys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boitran.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boitran.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boitran.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boitran.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boitran.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2116"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/boitran.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7688,"href":"https:\/\/boitran.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116\/revisions\/7688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boitran.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boitran.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boitran.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boitran.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}