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Le Pho

Lê Phổ
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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. 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. 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.



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