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LE PHO (1907-2011)
Nature morte aux fleurs et pommes (Still life with flowers and apples)
signed in Chinese and signed 'Le pho' (lower left)
gouache and ink on silk
92 x 59.6 cm. (36 x 23 1/2 in.)
Painted circa 1952-54
Provenance
Private collection, France
Sotheby’s Olympia, 23 October 2002, lot 642
Private collection, Asia (Acquired at the above sale by the previous owner)
Christie’s Hong Kong, 25 April 2004, lot 528
Private collection, Melbourne (Acquired at the above sale by the previous owner)
Deutscher and Hackett, Australia, 26 November 2008, lot 50
Acquired from the above by the previous owner
Thence by descent to the present owner
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“In contrast, Le Pho’s paintings of the still-lifes become increasingly abstract throughout the 1950s and 1960s as his interest in brilliant colour and flattened spatial perspectives becomes more and more dominant.” – Janet Whitmore on Le Pho

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