Tag: The École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de l’Indochine
Le Pho (Vietnam, 1907-2001) was the tenth child in a family of twenty fathered by the senior mandarin Le Hoan. Because of his father's status, he received a cultured education, including training in brush painting. At age 18, he was admitted into the first class of students to attend the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Hanoi ...
Victor Tardieu (France, 1870-1937) in his residence, Hanoi, circa 1928. The most beautiful epics are always the result of chance and necessity. Tardieu is no exception to the rule. When he arrives in Hanoi on 2 February 1921, a 50-year-old man who, the previous year, just received the Prix de l’Indochine. This Prize was the ...