Le Pho. 1907-2001.
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Still Life with Poppies. c. 1975. Oil on canvas. 11 1/2 x 8 1/2 (framed 20 x 17). "Le Pho" lower right. Wally Findlay Galleries label, verso. $7,500.
Born in Vietnam in 1907, Le Pho was in the first class of artists that graduated from l'Ecole des Beaux Art de l'Indochine in Hanoi from 1925 to 1930, and then at the in Paris during the following two years. Le Pho traveled to France in 1932 to study painting l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. After returning to Vietnam, he became a teacher at the same Indochina Fine Arts School in Hanoi. In 1937, Le Pho moved to France where he continued to live and paint until his death in December 2001.
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