
Mother and Child
An oil painting by Lê Phổ depicting the intimate subject of 'Mother and Child'. The work exemplifies the artist's humanistic approach to portraiture.
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
20th Century & Contemporary Art & Design Day Sale in Association with Poly Auction
June 7, 2021
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Mai Trung Thứ
Vietnamese · b. 1906

Mai Trung Thứ was a Vietnamese artist who similarly depicted tender, intimate scenes of mothers and children with a lyrical figurative style blending Eastern sensibility with Western technique. His works share the same warm humanistic portraiture quality and cultural intimacy found in Lê Phổ's painting.

Mary Cassatt
American · b. 1844

Mary Cassatt devoted much of her career to painting intimate mother and child subjects in oil on canvas with a deeply humanistic and emotionally warm figurative approach. Her focus on the tender bond between mothers and children directly parallels the subject matter and intimate portraiture style of this specific work.

Vu Cao Dam
Vietnamese · b. 1908

Vu Cao Dam was a Vietnamese figurative painter who frequently explored intimate domestic subjects including maternal themes with a painterly softness and humanistic warmth very close to Lê Phổ's style. Both artists trained in a similar tradition and shared a focus on portraiture rooted in Vietnamese cultural sensibility expressed through Western oil painting technique.
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