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JOSEPH INGUIMBERTY (1869-1971)
Lot 119

JOSEPH INGUIMBERTY (1869-1971)

Femmes Tonkinoises dans la Rizière (Tonkinese Women in the Rice Field)

Closed25 May 2021

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HKD 1,750,000

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JOSEPH INGUIMBERTY (1869-1971)
Femmes Tonkinoises dans la Rizière (Tonkinese Women in the Rice Field)
Signed ‘INGUIMBERTY’ (lower right)
oil on canvas
129.5 x 162 cm. (51x 63 ¾ in.)
Painted circa 1935

Private Collection, France

Specialist note

“No one better than [Inguimberty] could restitute this tropical light, so different to ours, this bright light, implacable, painful to the eyes, metallic, his white dazzling skies, the acidity in the greens during the wet season, a powerful vibration you can't find in our latitudes”

Pierre Gourou, “Le Delta Tonkinois” in Le Monde Colonial Illustré, 1st January 1937