Answer the following question: Facts: - death place: paris - training: Ecole des beaux-arts in paris superieure des beaux arts de l'indochine , Ecole - caption: painter le pho - patrons: victor tardieu - death date: 12 december 2001 - field: painting - alias: le pho - birth date: 2 august 1907 - movement: romanticism , impressionism , surrealism - birthname: le pho - image: vietnamese painter le pho.jpg - birth place: thanh xuan , ha noi - nationality: vietnamese Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of le pho .
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le pho -lrb- 2 august 1907 - 12 december 2001 -rrb- was a vietnamese painter .in 1932 , he earned a scholarship to study at the Ecole des beaux-arts in paris .upon returning to vietnam he taught at the Ecole superieure des beaux arts de l'indochine in hanoi .in 1937 , he came back to paris where he resided until the time of his death - one of four ebai graduates who made a career in paris , including mai trung thu , vu cao am and woman painter le thi luu .he painted sceneries of vietnam , still life with flowers , family settings and portraits .vietnamese women , most often portrayed as elongated figures evoking the influence of surrealism , are a recurrent theme in his work .