The auction’s highlight is Les Rapides de Cho Bo, a six-panel lacquer screen with gold highlights, painted in 1942 by Le Quoc Loc. The artwork is estimated to fetch €400,000 ($396,000), the highest price of the lot.
ADB Country Director Andrew Jeffries has talked on the recent interest rate hike by the State Bank of Vietnam in the context of the Fed, ECB and a number of countries raising their rates to curb inflation.
A variety of rural Vietnamese landscapes are vividly portrayed in lacquer paintings by late painter Le Quoc Loc (1918-1987), an alumnus of the Indochina College of Fine Arts. - VnExpress International
CNN has recently released a list of the world’s best food, encouraging visitors to try when they have the opportunity to travel in 2022. The following are the Vietnamese selections.