ZHONG CHENG

Born in Vietnam, son of Le Hoan, a senior mandarin. Le Pho received a comprehensive education, including training in brush training. He was in the first class of artists that graduated from the Ecole des Beaux Art de l'Indochine in Hanoi. After completing his education, Le Pho  returned to Vietnam to teach at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts for four years. Following trips to Europe and to China in the early 1930's, Le Pho returned to Paris in 1937 where he eventually married and lived until his death in December 2001. His works are in the permanent collections of Museum d’Art Moderne in Paris, the Vietnam Museum of Modern Art, and the Oklahoma Art Center.