




Le Pho (Vietnamese, 1907-2001) Maternité (Maternity)
Sold for HK$900,000 inc. premium
Looking for a similar item?
Our Indian, Himalayan & Southeast Asian Art specialists can help you find a similar item at an auction or via a private sale.
Find your local specialistAsk about this lot

Le Pho (Vietnamese, 1907-2001)
Gouache on silk, framed
Signed 'Le Pho'at lower left
Painted in the early 1940s
41 x 27 cm (16⅛ x 10½ in).
Footnotes
Provenance:
Private Collection, France
Acquired from the above by the present owner
黎譜 母與子 粉彩絹本 鏡框 一九四〇年代初期作
簽名:Le Pho (左下角)
來源:
法國私人收藏
現藏家得自上述
At age 18, Le Pho was admitted into the first class of students to attend the Indochina School of Fine Art in Hanoi. From 1930, the young painter travelled to Europe where he discovered works of modern French painters as well as Renaissance artists in Italy. He moved to France permanently in 1937, when his works started to reveal a strong influence from Pierre Bonnard and Henri Matisse. Dating stylistically to the early 1940s, Maternité portrays a mother tending to her child with a caring and contemplating look, and is reminiscent of classical representations of the Virgin and Child, whilst the vivid colours and refined brushstrokes evoke the style of modern French painters, for instance Pierre Bonnard. Fusing the cross-cultural influences of Western aesthetics and Vietnamese identity, Maternité is iconic of Le Pho's rich and complex work where are layered many themes such as motherhood, spirituality and identity.
黎譜18歲入選為河內的印度支那美術學院首屆學生,自1930年起,此藝術青年遠赴歐洲,接觸並考究了許多法國現代藝術家和義大利文藝復興畫家之作。1937年,他移居法國就此定居,其作品亦受皮埃爾 · 博納爾和亨利 · 馬蒂斯畫風的影響。就藝術風格而言,《母與子》創作於1940年代初期,描繪慈母摟抱孩童於胸前,關懷呵護之情。此場景似傳統主題《聖母子》之表現模式,而鮮明的色系和精緻細微的筆觸與法國現代大師,如皮埃爾 · 博納爾的風格同調。《母與子》結合了西方藝術精華和越南文化之魂,為黎譜豐富多元且錯綜複雜藝術中的代表之作,涵蓋為母之道、精神靈性和身份認同等多層面主題。