Pham Luc (b. 1943), Painter From Hue, Ink And Watercolor, Bustling Street

The cursive letters “PhLuc” or “P.Luc” are clearly visible, a style characteristic of the artist in which the “P” extends downward and intertwines with the rest of the name.

The square red seal features his artist’s name engraved in sigillate-style characters "

Short biography: 

Dimensions: 21 cm x 32 cm
Frame: unframed
* Never before offered at public auction
Provenance: former family in the Drôme region of Provence

** Luc Pham graduated from the Hanoi Institute of Fine Arts in 1977.

He has participated in numerous national and international exhibitions: Japan, Malaysia, Germany, Russia, France, the U.S., Italy, Poland, and the former Czechoslovakia.

In 1996, he was featured in the exhibition Vietnam: 30 Years of Painting from War to Peace in Paris. He has received various awards and honors: in 1990, he was a prize winner in the Ministry of Defense competition; in 1996, he was elected advisor to the Art and Culture Department at UNESCO in Hanoi.

Highly prolific, he paints a wide variety of subjects, with a predilection for themes such as: mother and child, love, and armed defense. Notable works include: War Disabled; B-52 Bombing; The Festival; Citadel; these works feature arabesques and black outlines encircling blocks of color that enhance the expressiveness of the simplified silhouette-based drawing