Untitled (Hanoi, 1994)

Object Details

• Artist

  An-My Lê (Vietnam, born 1960)

• Provenance

  1997

  An-My Lê (b. 1960) [1]

  From 1997

  Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, purchased from An-My Lê [2]

  Notes:

  [1] See letter from An-My Lê to Tom Lentz, dated October 9, 1996, copy in object file. The letter indicates that this photograph is dated 1994 and was printed by the artist in spring of 1997.

  See invoice number 97-10 from An-My Lê, dated February 24, 1997, copy in object file.

  See also “Incoming Receipt,” dated February 25, 1997, copy in object file. The object was transferred from An-My Lê to the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery for acquisition consideration on February 25, 1997.

  [2] See Arthur M. Sackler, “Acquisition Consideration Form,” approved on March 7, 1997, copy in object file.

  Research updated September 28, 2023

• Collection

  National Museum of Asian Art Collection

• Previous custodian or owner

  An-My Lê (Vietnam, born 1960)

• Origin

  Vietnam

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Smithsonian Unrestricted Trust Funds

• Type

  Photograph

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1990s

• Name

  Lê, An-My

• Place

  Vietnam

• Topic

  Contemporary Art, Art, Cities and towns, Southeast Asian Art, Gardens

• Culture

  Southeast Asians

• Object Type

  Photographs