Hoi Lebadang, Vietnamese, French, 1921 to 2015, color lithograph on silk depicting a rural landscape with boats. Signed lower right. Framed. Hoi Lebadang is known for Painting, lithographs, book illustration. Lebadang was born in Vietnam and emigrated to France in 1939 to study at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Toulouse. He had his first one man show in Paris in 1950, and over the next thirty years gained prominence throughout France and Germany. He came to the attention of Americans in 1966 when the Cincinnati Art Museum hosted the first oneman exhibition of his paintings in the United States. Lebadang fuses the cultural influence of Europe and the Orient in his poetic visions articulated in watercolor, sculpture and lithography. He is recognized for the grace and simplicity of his imagery, executed in infinite variations of line, shape and color. Asian and Oriental Graphic Art Prints and Collectibles.