Lea Lafugie - Artist Info

About Lea Lafugie

Name variants

Léa Decamps-Lafugie
  • Biography

    Lea Lafugie was born in France and at the age of 16 she entered the School of Decorative Arts of Paris. In 1925 she began traveling the world, first to Sri Lanka, then India, where she held many exhibitions and painted portraits of Mahatma Gandhi and the poet Rabindranath Tagore. She subsequently traveled to Tibet, Southeast Asia, China, and Japan.

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