Le Thi Luu was one of the few women to enter the Fine Arts School of Indochina in Hanoi and the first to have a career as a professional artist. She was drawn to subjects involving women and children and her style was relatively classical, but she emphasized the expression of emotion through her gentle line and color.

Luu was part of a Vietnamese quartet who went to live in France in the late 1930s. Her work contributed to the emergence of Vietnamese modernism and Victor Tardieu, director of the Indochina Fine Arts School, even compared her style to Cézanne’s.

Le Thi Luu stands out as an essential figure in the history of artists from the Indochina School of Fine Arts by leaving posterity a testimony endowed with an enlighte...