Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Art

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Lot 301
  • 301

Le Pho

Estimate
140,000 - 220,000 HKD
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Description

  • Le Pho
  • A Lacquer Box Depicing a Vietnamese Landscape 
  • Lacquer on wood
  • Executed in 1930

Provenance

Gift from the artist to Victor Tardieu, director of the Indochina Fine Art School, Hanoi 
Sotheby's Singapore, 4 April 2004, Lot 80
Private Collection, U.S.A. 

Exhibited

Belgium, Musée royal de Mariemont, La Fleur du pêcher et l'Oiseau d'azur, 2002

Literature

Musée royal de Mariemont, La Fleur du pêcher et l'Oiseau d'azur, Belgium, 2002, page 102 colourplate

Catalogue Note

Lacquers by Le Pho are extremely rare and this box is unique being the only piece produced by the artist and also because like many others, the artist was allergic to this material. After the artist produced this box and a lacquer fold-screen, the artist stopped working with lacquer.  

Please note that this lot is accompanied by a copy of a letter from Victor Tardieu's family.