Bui Xuan Phai, one of the big four Vietnamese painters

I have a hungarian friend, who asked question about my last post of my father short stories "The year's last night of the poet Do". The post was in Vietnamese, so I guessed that she was impressed by the illustration drawed by Bui Xuan Phai.

Bui Xuan Phai was known as the best painter of the Hanoian street in the much mentioned sentence "Lương (Tran Dong Luong) paints girls, Phai (Bui Xuan Phai) paints street". Bui Xuan Phai was also one of the vietnamese Big Four "First Sang (Nguyen Sang), second Nghiem (Nguyen Tu Nghiem), third Lien (Duong Bich Lien), fourth Phai (Bui Xuan Phai)".

In 1998, I went to Princeton and jumped into an art shop and talked to the owner for couple hours and he talked about the vietnamese painter school as the most significant school in Asia.  He said it is special because it has the direct good influence from the French. The great french painter Tardieu was the person who made the school.

Here are the links to infos of Phai

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bui_Xuan_Phai

http://witnesscollection.org/the_collection/Pages/Bui_Xuan_Phai_%281920-88%29.html

https://www.google.com.vn/search?q=Bui+Xuan+Phai&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=EqpEU9ugB4iGiQfhwIDIAw&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ&biw=870&bih=391