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]