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Léa Decamps-Lafugie (French, 1890–1972) Ka — Portrait of a Young Woman in Traditional Dress - Image 2
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Léa Decamps-Lafugie (French, 1890–1972) Ka — Portrait of a Young Woman in Traditional Dress

Watercolour and gouache on paper, signed Lafugie lower centre and bearing a red chop mark.

 

A bust-length portrait of a young woman, probably of the Akha people of mainland Southeast Asia. She wears a dark headdress decorated with red bands, silver discs and beads, large silver hoop earrings, pendant ornaments and layered necklaces over blue-grey clothing.

 

Léa Decamps-Lafugie was a French artist and traveller who journeyed extensively through Asia during the 1920s. Her work records the people, traditional costumes and cultural life she encountered.

 

Presented in a dark wooden frame with a charcoal mount and silver-coloured inner slip.

 

Dimensions: 50.6 × 33 cm, excluding frame.

 

£3,200.00

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