Born in Viet Nam on August 2, 1907, Le Pho had a cosmopolitan background even as a young art student. He first studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts of Hanoi for five years from 1925 to 1930, and then at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris during the following two years. In 1933 on his return to Hanoi he was appointed professor in the Hanoi Ecole des Beaux-Arts, a post that he held from 1933 to 1936. Le Pho’s professorship in Hanoi came to an end when he was sent back to Paris in 1937 as a delegate to the International Exposition in Paris and served also as a member of the jury of this Exposition. Since that time Le Pho stayed in France. He had his first one man show in 1938. Also he served as artistic advisor to the Embassy of Viet Nam in Paris and had been a prizewinner in the International Exhibition of Beaux-Arts of Saigon and had become annual exhibitor at the Salon d’Automne and the Salon des Independants in Paris. His work is presented in the Permanent collection of the Museum d’Art Moderne, Paris.