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An Immersion in the International Art Market
The winners participate in a customized program led by expert Charlotte Aguttes-Reynier and her team, featuring numerous visits and meetings with gallery owners, artists, and industry professionals—all designed to foster networking. They are welcomed as VIPs at the Art Paris fair at the Grand Palais, chaired by Guillaume Piens, a member of the prize jury.
It is a unique experience that celebrates Franco-Vietnamese artistic friendship.
An award that makes history…
Since 2014, Aguttes has shed remarkable light on the works of painters who, in the early 20th century, received a dual education in both Asian and Western art. It was during a conference dedicated to Modern Art in Indochina that Charlotte Aguttes-Reynier, who is also president of the Association of Asian Artists in Paris, announced on January 7, 2025, her plan to create an award to support contemporary Vietnamese art. Nearly 300 people registered to take part in the fruitful discussions among all the speakers. This event brought together, alongside Charlotte Aguttes-Reynier, descendants of the first two directors of the Indochina School of Fine Arts: Victor Tardieu and Évariste Jonchère, as well as professors Jacques Lebas and Nam Sơn, and students Lê Phổ, Trịnh Hữu Ngọc, Mai Trung Thứ, and Vũ Cao Đàm.
In the auditorium of the Hanoi University of Natural and Social Sciences, beneath the large fresco restored based on the original by Victor Tardieu, the first director of the Indochina School of Fine Arts, she presented this project, which came to fruition with the first call for applications on September 3 of that year.
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Hanoi, January 7, 2025 – Announcement of the “Prix de la Route Mandarine” project ” – In Hanoi on January 7, 2025, surrounded by twelve beneficiaries representing the school’s first two directors, Victor Tardieu (1925–1937) and Evariste Jonchère (1938–1945), professors Jacques Lebas and Nam Sơn, and students Lê Phổ, Trịnh Hữu Ngọc, Mai Trung Thứ, and Vũ Cao Đàm, expert Charlotte Aguttes-Reynier announced her plan to create an award she hopes to name the “Prix de la Route Mandarine.”
Amphitheater of the Hanoi University of Natural and Social Sciences, January 7, 2025.
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Charlotte Aguttes-Reynier, president of the Association of Asian Artists in Paris, announces the call for nominations for the award named the “Prix de la route Mandarine.” Paris, September 3, 2025.
“Since the creation of this award last January, we have been considering what prize to offer and what name would be most appropriate for such a competition. Ultimately, we decided to name it the ‘Prix de la route Mandarine’ and chose to help the winners gain access to the international art world.
One hundred years ago, Victor Tardieu opened his school in Hanoi at 121 Route Mandarine. There, he welcomed students from all regions of Vietnam. He trained them and then encouraged them to showcase their work on the international stage—whether in Paris at the Salon des Artistes Français or at the 1937 World’s Fair, as well as in Rome, for example.
Open to Vietnamese students regardless of their city of origin, we wanted to offer two winners the opportunity to take their first step into the international art market by traveling to Paris for an exhibition. The Route Mandarine Prize invites every young Vietnamese person to set out on this journey and push their artistic boundaries.”
– Charlotte Aguttes-Reynier, president of the Association of Asian Artists in Paris
Mandarin Road?
It was on Mandarin Road in Hanoi that the School of Fine Arts opened its doors in 1925 for its first academic year.
Although this road has changed names several times, its route dates back to ancient times, and it is now known as Quốc lộ 1, or National Highway 1A. This is the historic highway that crosses Vietnam from north to south, connecting Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City via Hue, Da Nang, Nha Trang, and other cities, stretching over 2,300 km.
As early as the medieval dynasties, this main route connected the imperial capital (Thang Long, now Hanoi, and later Hue) to the southern provinces. Then known as Đường Cái Quan, the “great road of the mandarins,” it owed this name to the many mandarins responsible for imperial administration who traveled along it for centuries. As civil servants and scholars, they used this route to visit even the most remote villages.
Beginning in 1925, in the School’s studios at 121 Mandarine Road, the first students received a multicultural education of the highest caliber designed to enable them to bring about the Renewal of Modern Vietnamese Art.
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