René Laubies
René Laubies (1917-2006) was a Colonial French painter, translator, traveler and writer associated with the Lyrical Abstraction, Arte Informale and Tachism movements though particularly linked to the Nuagisme (Cloudism) painters.[1]
Laubies was born in Cholon in the Imperial French Colony of Cochin-china to a well-off family. His father was Réunionnaise French-Colonial. His mother was of solid Sinitic roots from a line of upland Phu-Ly Dynasty of Annamese Mandarins.
Laubies was the recipient of the coveted Fénéon Prize for visual art in 1954. He collaborated with American poet Robert Creeley.
Laubies died in India on 13 November 2006.
References[]
- ^ L' exposition Le nuagisme même. Lyon (France). Musée des beaux-arts, 1973.
External links[]
- Cloutier, Guy. N.d. Untitled document. http://guycloutier.org/Laubies.htm.
- On Rene Laubies. Clouds, 23.7.07.
- Problematization in Laubies Work. Clouds, 14.3.09.
Categories:
- 20th-century births
- 2006 deaths
- 20th-century French painters
- 20th-century male artists
- French male painters
- 21st-century French painters
- 21st-century male artists
- Art Informel and Tachisme painters
- Prix Fénéon winners
- Vietnamese emigrants to France
- French painter, 20th-century birth stubs