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The ink-and-gouache on silk painting La famille dans le jardin  (The Family in the Garden) by Le Pho (1907-2001) sold for HK$18.6 million (US$2.369 million) at Sotheby’s Hong Kong’s ‘50th Anniversary Modern Evening Auction’. The 1938 painting, which measures 91.3cm-by-61.5cm, is the artist’s second largest figurative work to go up for auction. It was signed ‘Le Pho’ in English and Chinese, stamped with the artist’s seal on the lower right corner. The painting was accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by the artist’s son, Alain Le Kim. Sotheby’s website describes the painting as “epitomizing Le Pho’s technical skill and vivid sense of imagination,  La famille dans le jardin  belongs to the pinnacle of Le Pho’s oeuvre as well as the overarching stylistic epoch of Vietnamese modernism.”   La famille dans le jardin (The Family in the Garden) by Le Pho has been sold for HK$18.6 million (US$2.369 million). Photos courtesy of So...

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