Delegates at the ceremony to receive the paintings at the Vietnamese Embassy in the Netherlands. (Photo: Baoquocte.vn) Hanoi (VNA) - The Vietnam National Fine ArtsMuseum has recently received two paintings from former Deputy Ambassador of the Netherlands to Vietnam Ellen Berends.
The former diplomat collected the two lacquerpaintings entitled "Kieu hanh" (Pride) and "Nhung nu hon tinh yeu" (Kissesof Love) by painter Phung Pham when she worked in Vietnam from 1997-2001.
She fell in love with Vietnam as well as its landscapes, people and fine arts while she was in the country.
Although Berends left the Southeast Asian country more than 20 years ago, hermemories of and love for Vietnam have never faded away.
She came to the Vietnamese Embassy in the Netherlandsto express her wish to donate the paintings to the Vietnam National Fine Arts Museum so that the Vietnamese public could contemplate the works which Berends had brought with her to many other countries.
"Nhung nu hon tinh yeu" (Kisses of Love) by painter Phung Pham. (Source: The Vietnam National Fine Arts Museum) The museum's representative highly appreciated Berends's good deed and thanked theVietnamese Embassy in the Netherlands, especially Ambassador Pham Viet Anh, for their efforts to bring thepaintings back to Vietnam.
Painter Phung Pham said he was moved to see the paintings again as they now become parts of the museum’s collection./.
