{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":22164,"auction_id":24,"set_id":43,"lot_number":"74","artist":"Le Pho (1907 - 2001)","title":"Composition 25P","starting_price":3400000,"signed_dated":"signed 'Le Pho' and signed again in Chinese (lower left) \nca. 1975","medium":"oil on canvas","size":"32\" x 24\" (81 cm x 61 m)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":"Wally Findlay Galleries, New York.","exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"Le Pho is widely famous for his paintings of women and children, usually in a garden setting imbued with floral elements. He and his contemporaries occupy a significant connection between Eastern and Western art. He was among the first students at the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de l’Indochine (presently the Vietnam University of Fine Arts) where a distinctive amalgamation of Oriental themes and Occidental approaches materialized in the 1920s. There, Le was trained to depict Oriental subjects and themes using French painting methods. He and his peers – To Ngoc Van, Nguyen Phan Chánh, and Vu Cao Dam, became the founders of what eventually became known as the Hanoi School that elevated the status of Vietnamese art at a time when Vietnam strictly regulated all foreign exchanges.
\n“Le Pho’s work is composed around very fundamentally desirable human conditions: serenity, maternity, and lush natural beauty. These are almost universally desired and understood,” said Findlay Gallery director Frederick S. Clark. Furthermore, Clark added: “Importantly, Le Pho captured Vietnamese subjects in a style that crossed over Eastern and Occidental techniques. The result is a style that is desirable to Eastern and Western collectors alike.”
\nAs written in the French newspaper Nice-Matin, “Le Pho uses color to produce harmonies in his paintings that are more and more orchestrated. The women he depicts have [the] sweetness of flowers, and the flowers he depicts sing a hymn to the morning, to the springtime, and to life.” \nAt present, Vietnamese artists owe a debt of gratitude to the triumph and legacy of Le Pho in firmly establishing the prosperity of contemporary Vietnamese art.","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":"
Le Pho (1907 - 2001) Composition 25P signed 'Le Pho' and signed again in Chinese (lower left) ca. 1975 oil on canvas 32\" x 24\" (81 cm x 61 m)