Lot 149
  • 149

Le Pho

Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
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Description

  • Le Pho
  • La fleuriste
  • Signed Le Pho and in Vietnamese (lower left); titled (on the reverse) and inscribed No. 308 (on the stretcher)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 35 1/4 by 45 1/2 in.
  • 89.5 by 115.6 cm
  • Painted in 1967.

Provenance

Wally Findlay Galleries, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1968

Condition

Oil on unlined canvas; the canvas is slack on the stretcher. The impasto is fresh and the colors bright. There is minor surface dirt across the entire canvas and some minor pigment separation in the more heavily painted whites. Under UV light there are no apparent inpaints visible.
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