Pierre Le-Tan
Pierre Le-Tan was born 1950 in Neuilly near Paris. He learned how to draw in the studio of his father, the painter Le-PHO, a well known Chinese artist. After having spent three months at the Paris Academie des Arts Décoratifs, he decided to quit and aged hardly 18, published the first of numerous covers for The New Yorker.
Pierre Le-Tan’s drawings are published in Vogue, Madame Figaro, Tattler, The New York Times Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s Bazaar, Town & Country, The World of Interiors etc. and have brought him international fame. Like Christian Bérard, 50 years earlier, he has become a cult figure for a small set of bright and sophisticated aesthetes.
Pierre Le-Tan ist the author of numerous books, some of them in collaboration with his friend, the French writer Patrick Modiano. He is also a very original art collector and a much sought after interior decorator.
Pierre Le-Tan was born 1950 in Neuilly near Paris. He learned how to draw in the studio of his father, the painter Le-PHO, a well known Chinese artist. After having spent three months at the Paris Academie des Arts Décoratifs, he decided to quit and aged hardly 18, published the first of numerous covers for The New Yorker.
Pierre Le-Tan’s drawings are published in Vogue, Madame Figaro, Tattler, The New York Times Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s Bazaar, Town & Country, The World of Interiors etc. and have brought him international fame. Like Christian Bérard, 50 years earlier, he has become a cult figure for a small set of bright and sophisticated aesthetes.
Pierre Le-Tan ist the author of numerous books, some of them in collaboration with his friend, the French writer Patrick Modiano. He is also a very original art collector and a much sought after interior decorator.
