Hoi Lebadang, Horses #IV, c.1974

Description

This artwork "titled "Horses #IV" 1974 is an original color lithograph, with embossing by French/Vietnamese artist Hoi Lebadang, 1922-2015. It … more This artwork "titled "Horses #IV" 1974 is an original color lithograph, with embossing by French/Vietnamese artist Hoi Lebadang, 1922-2015. It is hand signed and numbered 32/275 in pencil by the artist. The sheet size is 30 x 21 inches, framed size is 37 x 28.5 inches. Custom framed in a black bamboo style frame, with off white matting and red filet. It is in excellent condition.

About the artist:

Lebadang (Hoi) was born in Quang Tri, Vietnam in 1922. He moved to France in 1939 to pursue an art career at Ecole de Beaus Arts de Toulouse. While studying there he was awarded prizes for painting, drawing, and sculpture and won his first commission.

By 1950 the Paris art community had recognized Lebadang's work, appreciating the blend of European and Far Eastern culture and philosophies reflected in it. The director of the Far Eastern Department at UNESCO commissioned him to illustrate a book of poetry, published by Editions Euros.

Lebadang was first represented in the United States, in 1966, with an exhibition of his paintings at the Cincinnati Art Museum. In describing his art today critics remark that it incorporates everyday subjects into dream-like expressions of thought. Lebadang, an accomplished printmaker, favors the techniques of etching, lithograph, and serigraph. He also has done lithographs using the name Hoi.

Lebadang's work is exhibited in Dusseldorf, Paris, Nantes, Cologne, Cannes and Aix en Provence galleries. His work is owned in permanent private and public collections including: Rockefeller Collection, New York; Loo Collection in Tokyo; Verkerke Collection, Holland; Phoenix Art Museum, USA; Cincinnati Museum, USA; Columbia Art Institute, USA; Lund University Museum, Sweden; Foundation Museum, Kenya; and the Museum of Arts and Letters, France. less