LÊ PHỔ (1907-2001)

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LÊ PHỔ (1907-2001)
Bouquet de fleurs Oil, ink and color on silk, signed lower left 50 x 50 cm - 19 5/8 x 19 5/8 in. PROVENANCE Aktuaryus Gallery, Strasbourg Private collection, France (acquired from the former in the 1960s) Then by descent, at the end of the 1980s LÊ PHỔ Graduating from the first school year, Lê Phổ became an emblematic artist of the Hanoi School of Fine Arts. Very talented, he is quickly considered by Victor Tardieu - the director - as the best of his students. If his know-how and technicality ensured him this recognition, the constant assimilation of Asian and Western cultures in his work made Lê Phổ the best ambassador of the School. Indeed, although beginning with a style marked by the Italian primitives and evolving towards a touch influenced by the impressionists, the references to his native country are constant. Bouquet de fleurs, is at the crossroads of these two periods. Settled in France for several years, the artist tamed a new medium more Western: oil painting. Not totally abandoning his first love for ink and silk, he managed to use these different mediums while keeping his traditional support. The use of color on silk, which does not allow any mistake, underlines the artist’s great mastery but also his attachment to the Eastern techniques. Marked by the discovery of the Impressionists since his French settlement, Lê Phổ introduces a more vivid and colorful palette. Canary yellow, powdery pink and raspberry red all join the darker tones typical of his first period. The choice of subject matter also marks a turning point, in fact it is more in his early period that the artist was depicting the softness of the women of his country. Halfway between modernity and tradition, Bouquet de fleurs perfectly embodies Lê Phổ’s duality style.
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