Fillette aux nattes avec son panier de fleurs
Gouache et encre sur soie, signée en bas à droite
33.1 x 20 cm - 13 x 7 7/8 in
Gouache and ink on silk, signed lower right
PROVENANCE
Collection privée, France (offert par l'artiste et conservé depuis)
Puis par descendance, Paris
Girl with mats and flower basket perfectly illustrates the artist’s talent for capturing childlike candor. With a frank and sincere smile, the little girl enchants the spectator. The soft and harmoniously contrasted palette gives the composition a country look. Thanks to a disarming sincerity, Le Thi Luu makes this portrait an ode to youth.
LÊ THỊ LỰU
Le Thi Luu, a painter born in Vietnam, was one of the very few women to enter the Fine Arts School of Indochina in Hanoi, and the first to have a career as a professional artist. She successfully threw off the Confucian yoke that still weighed women down in the 1930s.
With the artists Mai Trung Thu, Le Pho and Vu Cao Dam, she was one of the Vietnamese quartet who went to live in France in the late 1930s.
She was particularly drawn to subjects involving women and children. Her style was relatively classical, but she emphasised the expression of emotion
through her gentle line and colour, and her work contributed to the emergence of Vietnamese modernism. Victor Tardieu, director of the Indochina Fine Arts School, even compared her style to Cézanne’s.
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