{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":22077,"auction_id":23,"set_id":42,"lot_number":"171","artist":"Le Pho (1907 - 2001)","title":"Untitled (Still Life)","starting_price":2200000,"signed_dated":"signed 'Le Pho' and \nsigned again in Chinese (lower right)","medium":"oil on canvas","size":"36\" x 25 1/4\" (91 cm x 64 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":"Wally Findlay Galleries, New York Private Collection, USA","exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"The works of French-Vietnamese painter Le Pho feature a compelling synthesis of Asian virtuosity with influences of contemporary Western art. In quality, his paintings are characterized as finely delineated and subtle yet exuding with Oriental elegance. Le Pho succeeded in weaving Impressionism, Surrealism, and traditional Chinese painting into\nan almost spiritual level of artistic consciousness. Furthermore, his oeuvre possesses a refined elegance that unravels a poetic quality. Principally, Le Pho dedicated his style to depicting semi-Impressionist paintings of flowers intricately rendered in a graceful form and unconstrained transparency of color. As described in the French weekly regional newspaper Liberte?-Dimanche, the misty diffusion of color makes his bouquets vibrate with remarkable luminosity...Le Pho succeeds in expressing the idea in which he excels: the search for the moment in which light plays in poetic touches on the familiar forms of objects and of flowers.\n
\nIn the early 1960s, American art dealer Wally Findlay discovered Le Pho in Paris. The two signed an exclusive partnership in 1964, marking the beginning of Le Pho's "Findlay Period. This still life composition belongs to this prolific phase of the artist's career, widely regarded as his golden period. During the Findlay Period, Le Pho received numerous acclaims and enjoyed profitable patronage sales. Wally Findlay continuously sold Le\nPho's paintings to collectors in the US and elsewhere in the world. In an artistic context, Le Pho's works during this time were teeming with the vibrancy of bright colors as if being illuminated by natural light. He also developed a penchant to paint his subjects using oil. Le Pho continued to depict Vietnamese women and children in verdant gardens and terraces, as well as lush flower bouquets.\n
\nSince Le Pho is a pioneer of his generation, his unique style demonstrates an intimate attachment to both his Asian heritage and the Western tradition he wholeheartedly embraced. His cosmopolitan approach to art manifests his visual homage to universal themes of beauty and love. As written in Les Dernieres Nouvelles d'Alsace, another French weekly regional newspaper,\n
\nLe Pho's art is an interpretation of joy—the joy of flowers, of family affection—presented with an emotion that is at the same time sincere and measured. His still lifes are true portraits of flowers opening under an irresistible luminosity. In his art, one sees the beautiful result of the assimilation and the fruition of the blending of two artistic heritages— that of the Orient and that of our own. Here one sees a\nrich past joined in his paintings which moves the beholder without being tinged in the slightest by false exoticism.","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":"
Le Pho (1907 - 2001) Untitled (Still Life) signed 'Le Pho' and signed again in Chinese (lower right) oil on canvas 36\" x 25 1/4\" (91 cm x 64 cm)