French Colonial Wall Art of Saigon and Da Lat

Saigon palaces with green lawns and fountains, a cream tower beside an arcade, and pink and yellow villas on a Da Lat lane make up the French colonial wall art on this page. Ao dai figures walk the paths in some of the landscapes. Each image comes either as a brushed oil painting made by hand or as an archival canvas print of the same view.

Palace lawns, fountains and a tree-lined street

One painting centres on a white fountain standing in a round pool, with a tree-lined street running off beyond the iron gates, traffic and red banners along it, the morning light soft. Another puts a pale palace and its red flag behind a round lawn, with orange trees packed on either side and a grey road leading straight to the entrance. The greens and creams sit well on a pale wall. More views of the city, with its palaces and avenues, are in the Saigon collection.

Halls, arcades and a quiet plaza

A long hall in Saigon is seen through green-framed glass and curved cream screens, the lawn and blue sky beyond, the dark floor catching the daylight. In another painting, a cream tower with a terracotta roof rises to the right of a low arcade, its single arched window above a pale plaza and a wide, empty grey-blue sky. Paintings in this pale, quiet register also hang in the wider Indochine collection.

Da Lat villas and figures in ao dai

Lilac blossom fills the left side of the Da Lat lane, where a pink villa stands next to a taller yellow house with terracotta roofs, pines rising overhead and walkers in conical hats climbing the stone way. Elsewhere, figures dressed in peach and in a green ao dai move along a paved path, the palace and fountain behind them and the brushstrokes loose. Pink and yellow walls pair with a neutral room, while the lawn greens suit a white or soft grey wall.