Les teinturières (The laundry ladies)

"From 1950 onwards, Le Pho's palette becomes lighter. The painter adopts the manner of the sketch, or rather of the outline. His pictures are 'boneless'. They have no linear scaffolding. Contact with Bonnard's work played a decisive role in the evolution of the artist. Le Pho began to paint in oil on canvas. He achieved a harmonious synthesis between Chinese painting and Impressionism, or rather Post-Impressionism. If he retains his nostalgia for the country of a thousand flowers, if his figures are modeled from the same stuff as the air which envelopes them and blurs their outlines, if he devotes himself to translating light, that soul of all painting, he never ceases to be himself." (Waldemar George in "Le Pho: The 'Divine Painter'", le-pho, Wally Findlay Galleries International, Inc, United States, p. 4.)