Gustave Salgé was a French painter, graphic artist, and architect. He attended the École des Beaux-Arts in Marseille and continued his studies in Paris. He developed an early enthusiasm for Orientalism. In 1913, using the prize money from the Indochina Prize he had been awarded, he travelled to French Indochina (present-day Vietnam). Salgé opened the first art school in Hanoi and lived there for 34 years. In the 1920s, his brother Jean served as a harbour pilot in Haiphong. Many of Gustave’s paintings depict scenes from Vietnam; he produced these works, for instance, for colonial exhibitions in France.
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