The oil on canvas "Property of a Lady of Title" was the top-selling item at Sloane Street Auctions on that day and marked the first Vietnamese artwork ever auctioned at the house.

Vietnamese artist Vu Cao Dam's painting "Property of a Lady of Title."

Originally showcased at Vu Cao Dam's 1960 solo exhibition in London, organized by the renowned Frost & Reed gallery, the painting has a fully documented provenance. It was acquired at the 1960 show by the father of the current owner.

Sloane Street Auctions' founder and CEO, Daniel Hunt, described the work as rare and praised Vu Cao Dam as "a Chagall of the East." He noted growing international interest in the artist's work.

Born in 1908 in Hanoi to a well-off family, the fifth of 14 children, the artist was influenced by French culture from a very young age as his father, Vu Dinh Thi (1864-1930), was a scholar and had an in-depth knowledge of French culture.

A graduate of the Hanoi College of Fine Arts, Vu Cao Dam was taught by French artists Victor Tardieu and Joseph Inguimberty. In 1931, he traveled to Paris on a scholarship to further his studies at the Ecole de Louvre.

In 1949, he relocated with his family to southern France, where the local environment as well as the influence of his neighbor Chagall, who lived just a kilometer away, is evident in his later paintings, such as the present one.

The London-based Sloane Street Auctions specializes in auctioning old master drawings and paintings, European furniture and works of art, impressionist art, modern and contemporary art, and photography.

Not only showing interest in Vietnamese art, Sloane Street Auctions also joined efforts to help unfortunate children in Vietnam through supporting Facing the World, a U.K.-registered charity which has operated in Vietnam since 2007 to provide medical treatment for children born with craniofacial defects, which helps fund around 10,000 surgeries annually.

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