Mai Thứ, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Mai Thứ

Vietnamese painter

Date of Birth: 10-Nov-1906

Place of Birth: Haiphong, Vietnam

Date of Death: 10-Oct-1980

Profession: musician, painter

Nationality: Vietnam

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Mai Trung Th? (An Duong, 1906-Clichy-la-Garenne, 10 October 1980), or Mai Th?, was a Vietnamese-French painter.
He was one of the graduates of the 1st (1925 - 1930) entering class of the École des Beaux-Arts de l'Indochine in Hanoi.
He lived and worked mostly in France.
His main subjects were women, children and daily life, incorporating some traditional Vietnamese conceptions about fine arts and folk arts.
All his work, apart from a few oil paintings, is silk painting with gouache, by rubbing and colours applied as solids.