Les hortensias 繡球花
1975
Lê Phổ's 'Les hortensias' (1975) is an oil on canvas painting titled with the French and Chinese characters for hydrangea flowers. The work reflects the artist's Vietnamese-French heritage and lyrical approach to floral subjects.
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Location
- Sotheby's, New York, NY
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Sotheby'sView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Modern Art Day Sale
October 10, 2021
Estimate: $800,000 to $1,500,000
Lot 704
Artists in conversation
Vu Cao Dam
Vietnamese-French · b. 1908
Like Lê Phổ, Vu Cao Dam was a Vietnamese artist trained in France who blended Eastern sensibility with Western oil painting techniques, producing lyrical floral and garden subjects with similarly soft, delicate color harmonies and intimate still life compositions.
Odilon Redon
French · b. 1840
Redon's luminous floral oil paintings share the same dreamy, soft botanical quality and rich blue tonal palette seen in Les hortensias, with both artists treating flowers as vehicles for gentle mood and poetic feeling rather than strict botanical documentation.
Henri Fantin-Latour
French · b. 1836
Fantin-Latour was celebrated for tender, softly rendered oil on canvas floral still lifes with delicate brushwork and harmonious color, qualities that closely mirror the lyrical handling of hydrangea blooms in Lê Phổ's 1975 painting.
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