Fleurs
Lê Phổ's 'Fleurs' is an oil painting on canvas that showcases the artist's delicate approach to depicting flowers. The work demonstrates the Vietnamese artist's characteristic blending of Eastern and Western artistic traditions through his refined use of color and form.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Location
- Sotheby's, New York, NY
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Sotheby'sView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Impressionist & Modern Art | New York
March 1, 2021
Estimate: $20,000 to $30,000
Lot 25
Artists in conversation
Vu Cao Dam
Vietnamese · b. 1908
A fellow Vietnamese artist who trained in France, Vu Cao Dam similarly blended Eastern sensitivity with Western oil painting techniques to create delicate, luminous floral still lifes with a serene and refined quality.
Odilon Redon
French · b. 1840
Redon's celebrated floral oil paintings share a similar dreamlike, colorful, and tender approach to depicting blooms, emphasizing softened forms and rich chromatic harmony over strict botanical detail.
Henri Fantin-Latour
French · b. 1836
Fantin-Latour was renowned for intimate and serene floral still life paintings in oil on canvas, capturing flowers with a gentle elegance and refined use of color that closely parallels the mood and subject matter of this work.
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