# Vu Cao Dam artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/vu-cao-dam/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T11:54:26.067Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Vietnamese
- Common media: Painting, Sculpture, Works on paper and prints, Mixed media and editions

## Portrait

![Vu Cao Dam](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/V%C5%A9_Cao_%C4%90%C3%A0m_painting_at_easel_in_the_countryside_of_Hanoi%2C_circa_1926-27.jpg)
Unknown photographer · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:V%C5%A9_Cao_%C4%90%C3%A0m_painting_at_easel_in_the_countryside_of_Hanoi,_circa_1926-27.jpg

## About Vu Cao Dam

Vu Cao Dam (1908–2000) was a Vietnamese painter and sculptor whose career connected Hanoi and Paris. Public biographical sources identify him as an alumnus of Victor Tardieu’s École des Beaux-Arts de l’Indochine in Hanoi and report that he later emigrated to France, where he developed his career in Paris. Authority records preserve several forms of his name, including Vũ Cao Đàm and Vu-Cao-Dam, which are useful when matching catalogues and auction records. Collectors encounter his name across painting and sculpture, while Appraisily’s matched auction data also places works in works-on-paper, print, mixed-media, decorative-art, and edition categories. Those broad labels should be checked against the individual object rather than treated as a complete catalogue of his practice. The supplied sources support his life years, Vietnamese identity, occupations, training context, and French career, but they do not provide enough institution-grade detail to assign a specific movement, define major series, or state exact birth and death dates.

## Common works and media

The strongest supported work types are paintings and sculpture. In appraisal and auction records, entries may also be grouped as works on paper, prints, mixed media, decorative art, or editions. Because these are broad market classifications rather than a catalogue raisonné, each object should be described by its actual medium, support, dimensions, technique, signature or inscription, edition information, and condition. No recurring subject or named series is established by the supplied sources.

## Market and appraisal context

An appraisal should begin with genuinely comparable objects: works sharing the same medium, dimensions, date or career period, subject, and attribution status. Condition, restoration, surface quality, signature or inscriptions, edition information, provenance, exhibition history, and catalogue references should also be reviewed. Appraisily’s public index contains a substantial body of matched auction records, but its category labels are broad and should not replace object-level examination. Realized prices should be compared on a consistent basis because reporting may differ over buyer premiums and fees. Public results are useful evidence, not a price prediction, and may not reflect private transactions, incomplete feeds, later attribution changes, or differences in condition.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7945052
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/6697167202650167930007/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C5%A9_Cao_%C4%90%C3%A0m
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vu_Cao_Dam
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/vu-cao-dam/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:V%C5%A9_Cao_%C4%90%C3%A0m_painting_at_easel_in_the_countryside_of_Hanoi,_circa_1926-27.jpg