Village d'Indochine - Raymond Virac - Gouache On Paper, Monogrammed And Dated 1928

Raymond VIRAC (1892-1946) Village d'Indochine Gouache, monogram and date 1928 lower right Born in Madrid. After moving to Paris to take courses at the Académie Julian and then at the École des Beaux Arts, he received several prizes at numerous salons and exhibitions. Winner of the Indochina Prize in 1927 and left to teach at the School of Fine Arts in Hanoi. He was one of the painters exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français d'Indochine at the international colonial exhibition in Vincennes in 1931. He received the Madagascar prize in 1936 and left for Antananarivo where he was responsible for the decration of the town hall.
The work presented here is from the Indochinese period and describes the enclosure of a town not yet identified.