Photo © Phillips — view this lot on Phillips ↗Sadness, 1968
Gouache · Other support
Phillips · Sep 28, 2025HK$967,500 ≈ $124,343 ≈ £92,524 ≈ €106,531Sign up free to see price
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Tea Cup
Mai Trung Thu (French, 1906–1980) · 1968
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- Medium
- Gouache · Works on paper all gouache results →As published: “gouache on silk, in artist’s frame”
- Support
- Other support
- Signed / inscribed
- Signed, stamped with the artist's seal and dated 'MAI THU 1968 [in Chinese]' upper right
- Category
- Gouaches
- Dimensions
- work 35 x 22 cm. (13 3/4 x 8 5/8 in.) frame 52.5 x 38.7 cm. (20 5/8 x 15 1/4 in.)
- Auction house
- Phillips
- Sale
- Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale (HK010925)
- Date
- September 28, 2025
- Location
- Hong Kong
- Lot
- 176
- Estimate
- HK$500,000 – HK$700,000 (≈ $64,260 – $89,964) (≈ £47,816 – £66,942) (≈ €55,055 – €77,077)
- Source
- Auction house phillips.com ↗Retrieved Sep 27, 2026
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