Tag: Femme du Mandarin (The Mandarin’s Wife)

Le Pho (Vietnam/France, 1907-2001) with his painting Femme du Mandarin (The Mandarin’s Wife), Hanoi, circa 1933.

Le Pho’s Femme du Mandarin (The Mandarin’s Wife) at ‘Nucleo Storico’ Exhibition, Venice Biennale 2024. Le Pho (Vietnam, 1907-2001) Femme du Mandarin (The Mandarin’s Wife) signed and dated ‘LE-PHO 1931’ (lower right) oil on canvas 81 x 130 cm. (31 ⁵⁷/₆₄ x 51 ³/₁₆ in.) painted in 1931 on seal of the artist Exhibited Drouot, ...

Ms Alida Noordegraaf posing in front of Le Pho’s masterpieces, including La maison familiale au Tonkin (The family home in Tonkin), Femme du Mandarin (The Mandarin’s Wife) and holding Le Pho's Une tasse de thé (A Cup of Tea) at the Vietnamese art exhibition in the Netherlands, 1997.

For the very first time in Vietnamese Art History, a Vietnamese masterpiece by Le Pho featured on the front page of a catalogue. On 19 December 1996, in Drouot, its estimate was EUR 8000, finally released at EUR 25,000. For now, its estimate would be EUR 2,000,000. Le Pho (Vietnam, 1907-2001) Femme du Mandarin (The ...

Le Pho (Vietnam/France, 1907-2001) with his Nue (Nude) and Femme du Mandarin (The Mandarin’s Wife), Paris, circa 1938. Born in North Vietnam, Le Pho studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Hanoi in 1925, furthering his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Paris in 1931. He returned to Vietnam from 1932 to 1937, ...