© Phillips — view on Phillips website ↗Deux fillettes, 1978
Gouache · Other support
Phillips · Mar 29, 2026HK$967,500 ≈ $123,501 ≈ £92,991 ≈ €107,234Sign up free to see price![Mai Trung Thu, La Rose Rouge (J. femme à l’écharpe) [The Red Rose (Young Lady with Scarf)], 1959, colour on silk laid down on cardboard](/img/lot/cmuk2obxcodwlsf65jukq/small)
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Auction result
La Rose Rouge (J. femme à l’écharpe) [The Red Rose (Young Lady with Scarf)]
Mai Trung Thu (French, 1906–1980) · 1959
HK$875,000 price realized incl. premium
≈ $111,484≈ £88,011≈ €99,655
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- Medium
- Other · Other all other results →As published: “colour on silk laid down on cardboard”
- Support
- Other support
- Signed / inscribed
- Signed with one seal of the artist and dated 'MAI THU 1959' lower right
- Category
- Design (named designers)
- Dimensions
- 46 x 35.5 cm. (18 1/8 x 13 7/8 in.)
- Auction house
- Phillips
- Sale
- 20th Century & Contemporary Art & Design Day Sale (HK010219)
- Date
- May 25, 2019
- Location
- Hong Kong
- Lot
- 162
- Estimate
- HK$220,000 – HK$320,000 (≈ $28,030 – $40,771) (≈ £22,129 – £32,187) (≈ €25,056 – €36,445)
- Source
- Auction house phillips.com ↗Retrieved Sep 27, 2026
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