Le Pho – Nativity. 1941
Le Pho always showed gratitude for the circumstances of his life, and the depth of his feeling was a vital source of inspiration for his exceptional artistic work.
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Le Pho always showed gratitude for the circumstances of his life, and the depth of his feeling was a vital source of inspiration for his exceptional artistic work.
The whole scenery immersed in shades of brown and green shows that nature is stronger than humans.
This superlative masterwork is of great historical and artistic significance – both marking a milestone in the artist’s work as well as in Vietnamese painting.
2019 witnessed the great painter Le Pho (b. Hadong 1907 d. Paris 2000) become the most expensive Franco-Vietnamese painter in…
In 1925, Vietnam any painting of a nude was the fruit of a clash between two mentalities: on the one…
The painting presented here is unique in the production of the artist– subject to external stock taking. Indeed, if the…
Femme assise is a majestic and unique work by Le Pho, very different to any of his other creations throughout his…
All the greatest painters keep painting interpretations of the same subject as their relation to the world. For Le Pho,…
Le Pho is widely regarded as one of the greatest Vietnamese painters of the 20th century. After returning to Vietnam…
The representation of a couple remains rare in the work of Le Pho. Himself an orphan at a very young…