Danh mục: Artists

Maurice Denis (France, 1870-1943) studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Académie Julian, and through fellow student, Paul Sérusier learned of the innovative stylistic movement developed by Paul Gauguin and Emile Bernard in Pont-Aven in the summer of 1888. With Sérusier and a number of like-minded contemporaries at the Académie Julian such as Pierre ...

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 ...

Mr Jean-François Hubert, Senior Expert, Vietnamese Art and Nguyen Anh (Vietnam, 1914-2000), Paris, 1992.

Nguyen Anh (Vietnam, 1914-2000), Paris, 1992. Courtesy Mr Jean-François Hubert, Senior Expert, Vietnamese Art. Known as Nguyen Van Anh (Vietnam, 1914-2000), he graduated from the painting and modelling section of the École des Beaux-Arts in Hanoi in 1935. His teachers included Victor Tardieu (France, 1870-1937), Joseph Inguimberty (France, 1896-1971), Le Pho (Vietnam, 1907-2001) and Georges ...

Victor Tardieu (France, 1870-1937) was born in a family of Lyon silk merchants in April 1870 and joined the Lyon École des Beaux-Arts at an early age. In 1892, he moved to Paris to work in Bonnat's studio. Most notably he painted the great ports: (Gènes, London, Liverpool) and on his return to Paris in ...

Le Pho (Vietnam, 1907-2001) depicting in his studio, 1975

Mr Le Pho and his wife Paulette Vaux with Helen Findlay, Chicago, 1972.

Joseph Inguimberty (France, 1896-1971) painting, circa 1936. He was admitted to the Fine Art School of his native town, and in 1914 he entered the National School of Decorative Arts. He travelled to Belgium, The Netherlands, Spain and Italy thanks to the Blumenthal scholarship which he received in 1921, the French State scholarship in 1922, ...

Le Thi Luu (Vietnam/France, 1911-1988) painting at L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts de l'Indochine (The School of Fine Arts of Indochine), Hanoi, circa 1930. Le Thi Luu was born on 19 January in Tho Khoi which was the province of Ha Bac, North Vietnam. Her father, Le Van Que was a civil servant, and because of his position, ...