Le Ba Dang Art Museum

About this audio guide

This guide to the Le Ba Dang Art Museum in Hue follows painter Le Ba Dang from a hungry Paris garret in the early nineteen fifties, sketching cats to sell on the street, to decades in which his paintings entered major international collections. It traces how a wartime soldier turned self-taught artist built real wealth far from home, and the question of what he chose to do with it once that fortune was his. Best heard near his textured, folded canvases, where the paint itself carries the story.