Mai Thứ

He was one of the graduates of the 1st (1925–1930) entering class of the École des Beaux-Arts de l'Indochine in Hanoi.

He was a member of the first class of the École des Beaux-Arts de l'Indochine in Hanoi along with Le Pho.

Mai Trung Thu's early art celebrated folk themes and the innocence of rural Vietnam, and also suggested a nostalgia for the past.

He settled there for most of the rest of his life and gained a reputation as a painter of doleful, lovely women.

Mai Thu has works in the Fine Arts Museum of Vietnam, and private collections, mainly in foreign countries.