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Young Women in the Garden
c. 1940
Figures and foliage emerge through a radiant, laboriously layered lacquer surface.
Artist field note
Nguyễn Gia Trí
Lacquer becomes a modern field of depth, light and national imagination.
Appears inVietnam
The five in one idea
Nguyễn Gia Trí elevated lacquer from craft convention into one of Vietnamese modernism's most ambitious forms.