Lê Thị Lựu (19 January 1911 – 6 June 1988) was a Vietnamese woman painter. She was one of the first women and rare notable female alumni of Victor Tardieu's École des Beaux-Arts de l’Indochine in Hanoi, becoming the school's first female painter at the age of 16.[1] 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.[2] She used to be a teacher at Bưởi school, where her students included Phan Kế An, who also became a famous painter.[3] During her time in France, she became a prolific art teacher before retiring in 1971.[1]

Lê Thị Lựu
Lê Thị Lựu in 1947
Born
Lê Thị Lựu

(1911-01-19)19 January 1911
Gia Lam, Hanoi, Vietnam
Died6 June 1988(1988-06-06) (aged 77)
Antibes, France
EducationVietnam University of Fine Arts
Known for
Movement
Spouse
Ngô Thế Tân
(m. 1934⁠–⁠1988)
Children1
Lê Thị Lựu took a photo with an oil-paper umbrella in 1940

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  1. ^ a b Hieu Nhan. "French-Vietnamese painter's work fetches $570,000 at art auction - VnExpress International". VnExpress. Retrieved 2022-12-30.
  2. ^ 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..."
  3. ^ Lý Trực Dũng (2010). Biếm họa Việt Nam. Hanoi: NXB Mỹ Thuật. p. 46.