Lê Thị Lựu Explained

Lê Thị Lựu
Birth Name:Lê Thị Lựu
Birth Date:19 January 1911
Birth Place:Gia Lam, Hanoi, Vietnam
Death Place:Antibes, France
Education:Vietnam University of Fine Arts
Children:1

Lê Thị Lựu (黎氏榴, 19 January 1911  - 6 June 1988) was a Vietnamese woman painter. She was one of the first women and rare notable female alumni of Victor Tardieu's École des Beaux-Arts de l’Indochine in Hanoi, becoming the school's first female painter at the age of 16.[1] With Mai Trung Thứ, Lê Phổ and Vũ Cao Đàm she was one of four Vietnamese artists in the 1930s to emigrate to and make a career in Paris.[2] She used to be a teacher at Bưởi school, where her students included Phan Kế An, who also became a famous painter.[3] During her time in France, she became a prolific art teacher before retiring in 1971.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Hieu Nhan. 2022-12-30. French-Vietnamese painter's work fetches $570,000 at art auction - VnExpress International. VnExpress.
  2. Arts of Asia: Volume 39 "Mai Thu... Le Pho's other close friend, Vu Cao Dam, had already decided to live in France, and when the three men were later joined by their fellow Ecole des Beaux-Arts the woman artist Le Thi Luu (Class III, 1927 1932), these four..."
  3. Book: Lý Trực Dũng. Biếm họa Việt Nam. 2010. NXB Mỹ Thuật. Hanoi. 46.