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A painting entitled ‘Mère et enfant’ (Mother and child) by Vietnamese-French painter Le Thi Luu has been sold for 529,200 EUR (some 562,000 USD) in an online auction by Sotheby’s.

Some 100 paintings will be auctioned online at the Viet Art Exchange Facebook from March 23 to 25 to raise funds for the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

Vietnamese and international artists will perform at a charity concert entitled Look at The World at the Hanoi Opera House on October 16.

Vietnam’s first ever auction house for fine art will open on September 24 on the first floor of Block 25T, Plot N05, Trung Hoa ward, Cau Giay district under the management of Lac Viet Auction JSC.

Vietnamese artists and organisations donated artworks and precious objects to Vietnam Operation Smile for an auction to be held on June 18 at The Reverie Hotel.

A pair of Tu Linh (Four Sacred Animals) jars by artisan Pham Anh Dao from the Bat Trang pottery village have been auctioned off at a price of 275,000 USD.

Art for art’s sake. There goes the first art auction in Vietnam, set to take place on May 28, not for charity purposes.

Seventeen artworks were sold for a total 18,000 USD at an auction held at the Vietnam National Museum of Fine Arts.