[LÊ VAN DÊ (1906-1966)] - Lot 43

[LÊ VAN DÊ (1906-1966)] A slipcase containing a batch of documentation on Lê Van Dê including: - Le Missioni della compagnia di Jesu. December 15, 1939. Strenna 40. Fascicle illustrated in black and white including a three-page article entitled "La Conversione E l'Opera religiosa di un artista annamita" with two reproductions of works by Lê Van Dê. - Celso Constantini, L'art chrétien dans les missions, Desclée de Brouwer, 1949 - Chapter 3, l'art indochinois, p. 251 to 269 - "Le peintre Celse Lê Van Dê". Article with 5 black & white illustrations. Rare 439-page book. - Mostra d'Arte Missionaria, Exhibition catalog published by the Vatican, Rome, 1950. Paperback with 2 illustrations by Lê Van Dê and 4 other Vietnamese painters, plus a list of 51 Vietnamese exhibiting artists. - Exposiçao de Arte Sacra Missionaria, Lisbon, 1951. Catalog following on from the Rome exhibition in 1951 and including various illustrations of Vietnamese works not reproduced in the catalog published by the Vatican and 3 works by Lê Van Dê. - Exposicion de Arte Sacro Misional, Palacios de Exposiciones Del Retiro, Madrid, 1951. Exhibition catalog following on from the Rome exhibition, with additional images not previously reproduced. - Guide du Pavillon Pontificale Paris 1937, ed. L'Art Sacré, 1937. p. 38. Lê Van Dé is listed among the Pavilion's exhibitors. "The view is first taken of the panel at the back: La Vierge protectrice des missions by Lê Van Dé, an Annamite painter and student of Jean-Paul Laurens". - L'art sacré, July 1938 with an article entitled "Problèmes d'art missionnaire" written by M.A. Couturier, the magazine's director and dedicated exclusively to Lê Van Dê. - Black & white photograph of the Rome Sacred Art Exhibition in 1950, with three works by Lê Van Dê on the wall on the right. - Postcard in black and white - portrait of Monsignor Constantini, Lê Van Dê's mentor.