Mai Thứ

Who is Mai Thứ?

Mai Trung Thứ, or Mai Thứ, was a Vietnamese-French painter. He was one of the graduates of the 1st entering class of the École des Beaux-Arts de l'Indochine in Hanoi. He lived and worked mostly in France. His main subjects were women, children and daily life, incorporating some traditional Vietnamese conceptions about fine arts and folk arts. All his work, apart from a few oil paintings, is silk painting with gouache, by rubbing and colours applied as solids.