Lê Thị Lựu

Lê Thị Lựu, 1940

Lê Thị Lựu (1911-1988) was a Vietnamese woman painter. She was one of the rare notable female alumni of Victor Tardieu's École des Beaux-Arts de l’Indochine in Hanoi. With Mai Trung Thứ, Lê Phổ and Vũ Cao Đàm she was one of four Vietnamese artists in the 1930s to emigrate to and make a career in Paris.^[1] She used to be a teacher at Bưởi school, where her students included Phan Kế An, who also became a famous painter.^[2]

References

1. Arts of Asia: Volume 39 "Mai Thu... Le Pho's other close friend, Vu Cao Dam, had already decided to live in France, and when the three men were later joined by their fellow Ecole des Beaux-Arts the woman artist Le Thi Luu (Class III, 1927 1932), these four..."
2. Lý Trực Dũng (2010). Biếm họa Việt Nam. Hanoi: NXB Mỹ Thuật. p. 46.