Lê Phổ

Lê Phổ

Painter Lê Phổ
Born (1907-08-02)August 2, 1907
Thanh Xuân, Hà Nội
Died December 12, 2001(2001-12-12) (aged 94)
Paris
Nationality Vietnamese
Education École Supérieure des Beaux Arts de l'Indochine, École des Beaux-Arts in Paris
Known for Painting
Movement Romanticism, Impressionism, Surrealism
Patron(s) Victor Tardieu

Lê Phổ (2 August 1907 - 12 December 2001) was a Vietnamese painter.[1] In 1932, he earned a scholarship to study at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Upon returning to Vietnam he taught at the École Supérieure des Beaux Arts de l'Indochine in Hanoi.

In 1937, he came back to Paris where he resided until the time of his death - one of four EBAI graduates who made a career in Paris, including Mai Trung Thứ, Vũ Cao Đàm and woman painter Lê Thị Lựu.[2] He painted scenery of Vietnam, still life with flowers, family settings and portraits. Vietnamese women, most often portrayed as elongated figures evoking the influence of surrealism, are a recurrent theme in his work.[3]

References

  1. "Vĩnh biệt Lê Phổ: Danh họa Việt Nam trên đất Pháp". Đại đoàn kết cuối tuần số 279, số ra ngày 30.12.2001.
  2. Arts of Asia: Volume 39 "Mai Thu... Le Pho's other close friend, Vu Cao Dam, had already decided to live in France, and when the three men were later joined by their fellow Ecole des Beaux-Arts the woman artist Le Thi Luu (Class III, 1927 1932), these four..."
  3. Before 1945 6 June 2012 "The earliest Vietnamese artist to achieve recognition for his work in the ... school during the late colonial period included Lê Phổ (1907-2001)"


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