Anh Duong: La Tentation d'Exister. There is always Champagne in the Fridge.

Anh Duong: 

La Tentation d’Exister 

There is Always Champagne 

in the Fridge 




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Index 

Introduction, Isabelle Bscher ................................... p. 4 

Anh Duong, Peindre pour sauver son image: 

la dialectique du peintre et du modèle, Jérôme Neutres ................................... p. 9 

On Self Portraits, Anh Duong ................................. p. 17 

Anh Duong (Self) Portraits, Glenn O’Brien ................................. p. 19 

On Portrait, Anh Duong ................................. p. 41 

Biography ................................ . p. 69 

Collections ................................. p. 74 

Bibliography, Solo and Group Exhibitions ..................................p. 77 

Anh Duong, Paris 

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Isabelle Bscher 

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Anh Duong, La Promesse de l’Été, 2021 

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Louse Point II, 2012 

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Anh Duong 

Peindre pour sauver son 

image: la dialectique du 

peintre et du modèle 

Par Jérôme Neutres 1 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Le secret de Rembrandt 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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There is always 

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littéralement l’image et l’imaginaire d’un certain art 

 

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A la recherche du 

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sidérait 

la nature morte comme le meilleur exercice 

 

 

 

 

 

Rosebud- 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Jérôme Neutres 

Paris, June 2021 

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Anh Duong in Andy Warhol’s Montauk house, Summer 1989 

Mai Duong 

 

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Giacometti 

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Glenn O’Brien 

Originally published in: “Anh Duong (Self) Portraits,” 

Assouline, New York 2000 

 

 

Glamour 

 

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The Demon of 

Progress in the Arts. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Anh Duong in her studio, 1998 

François Halard 

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Vincent Gallo

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Anh Duong in Andy Warhol’s Montauk house, Summer 1989 

Mai Duong 

 

Je veux divorcer (I want to divorce) 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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“Anh Duong is the Frida Kahlo 

of the 21st century—unafraid of 

men, unafraid of sex, unafraid 

of criticism, unafraid of being 

herself. Her work is both brave 

and beautiful, stylish and 

upsetting, way out and too in. 

But it is of such contradictions 

that art is made.” 

Bob Colacello, 2000 

 

The Indian Servant 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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“If a single line could say everything, 

I would like to stop there. I don’t 

want to describe things but to reveal 

them. In my opinion a portrait is 

 

memory. I consider it as a dialectical 

game with the mirror image, which 

I analyse and deal with in a pictorial 

manner. Every work of an artist is 

a self-portrait. I am more conscious 

of that process than most. The 

subject matter disappears through 

repetition.” 

 

L’avantage de l’assassin sur la victime 

(The advantage of the assassin upon the victim) 

 

 

 

 

Anh Duong, 2011 

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Broyer Du Rose 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Les depravations de l’abstinance 

(The depravation of abstinence) 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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“I never start with the narrative: I 

let it come through paint. I like to 

start with the desire to paint a face, 

an object or an image of a dream and 

then the story will be told through 

each brushstroke.” 


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Seule avec lui (Alone with him)

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Après la Dispute (After the fight) 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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“And it is the canvas that 

speaks, it is not I that speaks on 

the canvas.” 


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“This work is not manneristic or 

decorative. It is not on automatic 

pilot. Nor is it about style or 

technique. There is a complete 

urgency and necessity to every mark 

in each painting.” 

Julian Schnabel, 2000 

 

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Philosophy and Prostitution 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Anh Duong and Simon de Pury 

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Anjelica Huston 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Susan Sarandon 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Untitled (Single Shoe) 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Anh Duong in her Hamptons home, 2016 

Oberto Gili 

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“Anh Duong is the Frida Kahlo of 

the 21st century. Her self-portraits 

are engraved on the hard disk of 

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our subconscious.” 

Simon de Pury, 2021

Urgency of the Worst 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Looking for the ideal father 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Anh Duong with ‘Louse Point,’ 2010 

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Louse Point 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Portrait of the artist 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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“I like to see how paintings affect 

the space, turning the neutrality 

of the gallery into a familiar place. 

The paintings have been around 

me in my studio for a long time. It’s 

interesting seeing something that 

is so close to me, so intimate, out 

there in the world, in the public 

eye. And when that happens, 

they’re not mine anymore.” 


 

Trou de memoire 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Don’t Come too Close, Don’t Go too Far 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Éloge de L’amour 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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“My paintings – that’s where I 

recognize myself the most... I always 

try to stay as close to my dreams 

as I can. Without dreams, nothing 

would happen.” 


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Louse Point II 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Capri c’est fini III 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Le Bonheur Paralyse mon Esprit 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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“(...) her paintings expose 

an unexpected, unglamorous, intimate relationship with 

her body (...) Duong’s paintings should be viewed as 

contributions to a different genre - they belong alongside the 

work of women such as Dora Maar, Anaïs Nin, and Frida 

Kahlo, artists who compellingly exposed interior worlds 

whose beauty, intelligence, and character inspired creativity, 

both in themselves and in others” 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anh Duong sculpting Diane von Fürstenberg, 2005 

François Halard 

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Anh Duong, photographed by Jean Pigozzi 

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Anh Duong’s 50 sculpted stars for the donor wall of the 

renovated Statue of Liberty Museum, 2019 

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Anne McNally 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Vincent Gallo 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Domenico Dolce 

 

Anne McNally 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Andrea and Antoinette Caratsch 

 

 

Frédéric Fékkai 

 

 

 

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Anh Duong in Andy Warhol’s Montauk house, Summer 

1989 

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Contact sheet with photographs of Anh Duong, 

Jean Pigozzi

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To paint to save one’s 

image: the dialectic of the 

artist and the model 

By Jérôme Neutres 1 

 

 

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Rembrandt’s Secret 

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In remembrance of 

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Jacques-mile Blanche, le peintre-écrivain 

 

 

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Rosebud 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Paris, June 2021 

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