# Lebadang artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/lebadang/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T12:00:50.923Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1921-06-27
- Death date: 2015-03-07
- Nationality: Vietnamese, French
- Common media: Painting, Printmaking, Sculpture

## Portrait

![Lebadang](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/Lebadang_Portrait.jpg)
LBD Luc · CC BY-SA 4.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lebadang_Portrait.jpg

## About Lebadang

Lebadang was the professional name of Lê Bá Đảng, a Vietnamese-born artist who became a naturalized French citizen and worked as a painter, printmaker, and sculptor. Most of the collected identity sources place his life in 1921–2015, although some authority headings preserve conflicting birth-year information. His career can be understood in a Vietnamese-French context, but the available institutional material does not establish a specific movement label, so none is assigned here. Library-linked print records show that collectors may encounter subjects such as boats, birds, horsemen, trees, and shrubs. His presence across painting, printmaking, and sculpture also means that the name Lebadang can appear on objects with materially different production methods. Correctly matching the professional name with Lê Bá Đảng and identifying the object type are therefore useful first steps when researching or appraising a work.

## Common works and media

Public identity records describe Lebadang as a painter, printmaker, and sculptor. VIAF-linked catalogue headings specifically document prints with subjects including trees, shrubs, boats, birds, and horsemen. These records support prints and works on paper as a recognizable research category, while the broader biographical sources also support paintings and sculpture. The collected material does not establish edition sizes, preferred techniques, or a definitive series chronology.

## Market and appraisal context

A Lebadang appraisal should begin by confirming the artist identity and determining whether the object is a painting, print, or sculpture. For prints, the title and depicted subject can help connect an object with catalogued records. Relevant public auction results can then provide comparable evidence when the medium, subject, dimensions, date, and other object characteristics are sufficiently similar. This source pack does not include readable major-auction-house cataloguing or a verified breakdown of the artist-page records, so it cannot support claims about price direction, scarcity, or the relative frequency of particular categories. Any valuation should rely on the individual object and documented comparables rather than the artist name alone.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with auction records and auction-house context. When available, sale dates, realized prices, and sufficiently comparable lots are used as evidence rather than as guarantees of an individual work's value.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10787572
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/221799159/
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebadang
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/110780566
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lebadang_Portrait.jpg
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/lebadang/