The Le Ba Dang Art Centre, of Hue, is hosting an exhibition of 64 antiwar paintings, many of them by well-known artists.

 A Picasso to be shown

The exhibition has just been opened on the 67th anniversary of the August Revolution and Vietnam National Day.

It features eight paintings by famous artists, including Picasso, Matta, Pignon, who produced in 1968 at an event held in Paris calling for intellectual circles around the world to act and help end the American war in Vietnam.

The curators have chosen paintings which oppose war in general around the world.

The Vietnamese artist, Le Ba Dang has been keeping the paintings since 1968, but chose to show them in Thua Thien- Hue Province.

Now 90 year-old and living in France, he says that Vietnam will always be a special place for him, and wants to contribute to the culture of Hue and the country.

There will also be 37 paintings on the October 1917 Revolution exhibited by Russian artists, as well as other works in ceramic, wood, or paper.

Matta paintings

Paintings by Pignon

Signatures of artists participating in the 1968 event in Paris

Paintings for the October 1917 Revolution presented to Le Ba Dang by Russian artists

Artist Le Ba Dang