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The Family Life
c. 1937
A compressed domestic group joins silk-painting delicacy to modern figuration.
Artist field note
Lê Phổ
Exile, memory and cultivated beauty meet in an East-West pictorial language.
Appears inVietnam
The five in one idea
Lê Phổ built a diasporic modernism from Vietnamese materials, French painting and the persistence of memory.