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Lacquered wood panel by the Vietnamese lacquer artist Nguyen Khang – estimate €25,000-35,000 at Artcurial.

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It is decorated in gold, silver and red on a black ground with two seated young women feeding doves and has two seals to the upper part.

The estimate is €25,000-35,000.

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Sanyu watercolour and ink drawing of a woman seated on a stool, signed in Chinese and Pinyin lower right – estimate €25,000-35,000 at Artcurial.

Artcurial will also hold a single-owner sale the following day, June 9, devoted to the brush drawings of the Chinese Paris School artist Sanyu, (1901-66), the third offering of works from the collection of Jean-Claude Riedel.

Among them is a 19x 12in (48 x 30cm) watercolour and ink drawing of a woman seated on a stool, signed in Chinese and Pinyin lower right, guided at €25,000-35,000.

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