Nguyễn Sáng

Nguyễn Sáng (1923, in Tien Giang Province – 1988, in Ho Chi Minh City) was a Vietnamese painter.^[1] He was a graduate of the 1940–1945 class of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de l'Indochine. His favorite medias were pumice lacquer and oil paint.^[2] Although not overtly political,^[3] Sáng was reluctant and unenthusiastic about the new communist society in his paintings.^[4] He was posthumously awarded the Ho Chi Minh Prize in 1996.

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  Girls at Hoan Kiem Lake, lacquer on wood
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  Cats, lacquer

Works

• Self-portrait, 1956
• Portrait of Painter Duong Bich Lien, 1964

Some of his works are in the Vietnam National Museum of Fine Arts, Hanoi.