Vu Cao Dam (1908 - 2000)Titled "Homecoming", color lithograph numbered 118/150, signed vu Cao Dam '62.Previously sold at Sotheby's.Vu Cao Dam was born in Hanoi in 1908 to a French-speaking and Francophile father. Raised in a scholarly universe, he joined the School of Fine Arts in Hanoi, founded in 1925 by the French painter Victor Tardieu. He accompanied the latter to the Paris International Exhibition in 1931 and discovered the world of Parisian art. Very influenced by the charms and culture of the City of Light, he travels through France, where he chooses to settle. First showing a keen interest in sculpture, which he practiced assiduously, it was finally in painting on silk that Vu Cao Dam expressed his immense talent. In these two fields, the artist focuses above all on the human figure, which he magnifies in portrait or in a charming genre scene. Combining with finesse the Asian and European pictorial traditions.Overall size: 26 x 32 in.Sight size: 20 x 25 in.