Artworks of Le Pho

The sensitive, subtle beautiful paintings by Vietnamese artist, Le Pho are a fascinating blending of Oriental artistry with influences of contemporary Western art. For the most part this artist specialized in semi-Impressionist studies of flowers and figures and handled them with delicacy and an unusually fluid transparency of color. In his early years, Le Pho preferred painting on silk instead of canvas, and to do so, developed a technique all his own. He then painted on canvas, and even on this sturdier material he achieved great richness and a completely unique surface texture, which suggests the delicacy of the silk formerly used.

Le Pho’s work has a distinctive elegance, along with imagination and artistry, which immediately suggests a background of culture and taste. Consequently, one is not surprised to learn that Le Pho was the son of the Viceroy of Tonkin (Viet Nam) and that his first one-man show in Paris was considered sufficiently important to be sponsored by the Embassy of Indo-China.