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A young woman is shown in crisp profile facing left, her gaze directed into open space as if caught mid-thought. Her skin is rendered with soft, powdery shading rather than sharp contour, giving her face a calm, porcelain-like stillness. Long, straight black hair falls in a continuous curtain down her back, held near the nape by a small, bright white comb. One hand is lifted, fingers gently curved under the chin, while the other arm folds across the body, creating a quiet, self-contained pose. She wears a deep red outer garment over a pale inner layer;l while a narrow band of yellow peeks at the seam, adding a warm note against the cool, muted ground. Behind her, the background dissolves into mossy greens and blurred shrub forms, with the silk’s fine texture subtly catching the pigments and softening edges into haze. Painting on silk was an important medium in Vietnamese artist Lê Phổ’s practice. This work balances delicacy with structure for a silhouette that is clean and graphic, yet an atmosphere stays velvety and intimate. The sitter is not identified, and the portrait’s power comes from that restraint: rather than telling us who she is, it dwells on how she feels—composed, private, and fully present in her own interior world. The white comb is both an everyday object and an emblem . It’s a small tool of care that becomes a luminous anchor for memory, ritual, and self-fashioning. Lê Phổ’s life bridged Hanoi and Paris, and after formative study at the École des Beaux-Arts de l’Indochine and later time in France, he developed a signature style that fused Vietnamese materials with European pictorial traditions. In that hybrid space, this profile becomes more than a likeness. It is a meditation on quiet dignity and how a simple gesture, a comb, and a wash of color can hold an entire mood.
“Le peigne blanc (The White Comb)” by Lê Phổ (Le Pho) (Vietnamese) - Ink and color on silk / c. early 1940s - National Gallery Singapore #WomenInArt #LePho #LêPhổ #Pho #NationalGallerySingapore #arte #VietnameseArt #AsianArt #art #artText #BlueskyArt #VietnameseArtist #AsianArtist #PortraitofaWoman
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Jeune fille en blanc (Young Girl in White) is a rare and important example from Vietnamese-French artist Lê Phổ’s early artistic period, and marks an important juncture in the artist’s career, during his first trip to Paris, France between 1930-1932. The painting’s colophon is extracted from an 18th Century poem written from the perspective of a soldier’s wife lamenting the suffering of war. The young Vietnamese woman with her long black hair in a bun and dressed in an austere white áo dài quietly gazes introspectively at a white pot of delicate white and dark flowers that have been cultivated with care. The blooming flowers are in direct contrast to the sparse interior and bleak outdoors that is her backdrop, and Lê Phổ presents us with an allegory of longing, loyalty, duty, and perseverance. Lê Phổ is regarded as a key figure within the discussion of modern art in Vietnam. Alongside contemporaries Mai Trung Thứ and Vũ Cao Đàm, Lê Phổ is representative of the generation of artists trained within the French academic style at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts of Hanoi, who then traveled to France to further their careers. Lê Phổ arrived in Paris in 1930, and enrolled at the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts. During this time, he also participated in the Prima Mostra Internazionale d’arte Coloniale in Rome, Italy, 1931, where “Jeune fille en blanc,” was likely to have been first exhibited. “Jeune fille en blanc” presents a study of a particular individual: the background plain, her body composed of nothing but the white fabric of her traditional Vietnamese dress, her hair tied back demurely, leaving all our attention on the particularities of her face. While works of this type were frequently sold to French collectors or exhibited in colonial exhibitions, this painting is not defined by the colonial gaze. She remains a subject with a sense of self-definition rather than a colonial object.
Jeune fille en blanc (Young Girl in White) by Lê Phổ (Vietnamese) - Oil on canvas / 1931 - National Gallery Singapore #WomenInArt #ArtText #art #oilpainting #NationalGallerySingapore #VietnameseArtist #LêPhổ #LePho #VietnameseArt #womensart #poetry #artwork #portraitofagirl #áodài #aodai #bskyart
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Lê Phô was one of the first Vietnamese artists to graduate from the École des Beaux Arts de l’Indochine (Indochina School of Fine Arts) in Hanoi, and his work represents the ambitious artistic experiments of his generation. In Jeune fille à la rose (1942), Phô depicts a young woman with a serene expression, dressed in traditional attire, set against a backdrop of a stylized garden and buildings. It is a moody painting utilizing a muted color palette of grays, beiges, and greens. The brushstrokes are visible, giving the painting a textured quality that is soft and evocative. The Vietnamese woman is presented with soft and rounded features with her eyes almost closed looking down with a calm and peaceful expression. Her red lips stand out from the light beige-gray, loose-fitting traditional clothing that harmonizes well with the background subtly rendered, suggesting a courtyard, with light and shadow plus buildings at a distance used to create depth and a sense of space. The soft colors and brushstrokes create a sense of tranquility. Her pose is slightly turned towards her right, and her gaze is directed downward, creating a sense of introspection although she seems quite relaxed.
Jeune fille à la rose (Young girl with a rose) by Lê Phô (Vietnamese) - Pigment and Ink on silk / 1942 - Musée Cernuschi (Paris, France) #womeninart #art #lepho #artwork #vietnameseart #silkart #painting #womensart #MuséeCernuschi #LêPhô #vietnameseartist #fineart #paintingofawoman #vietnamese #rose
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