Green Palm Gallery

Nearly thirty years with Vietnamese painting in the heart of Saigon

In the Dong Khoi - Mac Thi Buoi area, where every square metre is a shop or a hotel, Green Palm Gallery has stood for almost thirty years, one of the oldest and most enduring commercial galleries in Saigon. After nearly three decades of working with Vietnam's major artists, the gallery has built a reputation for supplying quality works by several generations of painters, from the names that shaped Vietnamese modern art to contemporary artists now being collected. For international visitors, it is a convenient place to grasp the range of Vietnamese painting quickly: oil, lacquer and silk - the materials that form this country's artistic identity are all fairly well represented. Unlike non-profit spaces or curated contemporary galleries, Green Palm operates as a commercial gallery. That does not make a visit any less interesting; on the contrary, asking about prices, hearing the stories of the painters and comparing materials is a way of learning about the Vietnamese art market that no book teaches faster. A tip on getting there: the display is at 49 Mac Thi Buoi, only a few minutes' walk from the Nguyen Hue pedestrian street, which fits perfectly into a stroll through the centre, before or after a coffee. If you intend to buy a painting to take home, ask carefully about provenance documents and packing and shipping procedures, as a long-established gallery in this area is used to handling all of that for international clients.

English text: machine translation from the Localis platform — proper names kept in Vietnamese.