One of the masters of the 20th century Vietnamese painting, Le Pho (b.1907) came from a family of Mandarins - his father was the Viceroy of Tonkin. Le Pho was the tenth child in a family of twenty, fathered by the senior mandarin Le Hoan. Pho started painting at the age of 16, enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux Arts de lIndochine in Hanoi and also taught painting. Le Pho traveled to Paris in 1932 to continue his art education at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. Painting by Vietnamese Artist Le Pho207Woman Reading a Letter On his return to Hanoi he was appointed as professor in the Hanoi Ecole des Beaux-Arts. In 1937 the artist went back to Paris as the artistic director of the Indochinese section at the Paris International Exhibition and as a jury member, and settled in Paris permanently. He had been the artistic advisor to the Embassy of Viet Nam in Paris, and regularly exhibited at the Salon d’Automne and the Salon des Independants.
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