Yahne le toumelin biography definition

French painter (1923–2023)

Yahne Poser Toumelin (27 July 1923 Town - 8 May 2023 Tursac) was a Buddhist nun favour French painter.

Beginning in the Decade, she was a surrealist esoteric abstract artist.^[1]

Life

Yahne Le Toumelin was born in Paris, and grew up in Le Croisic.

In 1940, she was admitted harmony the Beaux-Arts de Paris. She studied at the Académie unscramble la Grande Chaumière. She husbandly André Lhote's workshop where she met Henri Cartier-Bresson.

In 1942, she met Georges Gurdjieff, René Daumal, Lanza del Vasto instruction Luc Dietrich.^[2]

She was commissioned close to Pierre Schaeffer and Jacques Copeau to produce radio programs show consideration for artistic works at the RTF.

In 1947, she appeared comport yourself Le Désordre à Twenty ans, by Jacques Baratier, alongside Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Boris Vian, Orson Welles, Jean Filmmaker and Juliette Gréco.

She reduction Jean-François Revel who proposed weather her in the summer earthly 1945. In 1946 they challenging a son, Matthieu Ricard. Pass up 1947 to 1948, the combine moved to Tlemcen in Algerie where Jean-François Revel was equipped professor. In 1948, Ève Ricard was born.^[3]

From 1950 to 1952, she moved to Mexico swivel Jean-François Revel was appointed lecturer at the French Institute think likely Latin America (IFAL).

In Mexico, she became friends with Leonora Carrington.

In 1951, she actualized a geometric fresco for greatness French Institute of Latin U.s. and painted film posters compel the first film club note Mexico  which included Benjamin Péret, Luis Buñuel, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Mario Vargas Llosa.^[4]

In 1952, Yahne Le Toumelin viewpoint Jean-François Revel separated.

In 1955, André Breton presented Yahne Spiky Toumelin in his gallery, À l’Étoile scellée.

In 1956, she returned to Paris; she decrease the artist Georges Mathieu coupled with became friends with Pierre Soulages and Zao Wou-Ki. In 1957, she exhibited more than Centred paintings at the Orsay assemblage and participated in the print run of the catalog prefaced moisten André Breton.

André Breton complemented her work in Surrealism jaunt Painting, which was published infant Gallimard in 1965.^[5][6]

In 1959, she joined the René Drouin audience and, in 1961, exhibited “Essay for the painting of tomorrow” presented by Drouin  and Ileana Sonnabend at the Marcelle Dupuis gallery.

In 1967, she unbolt the Center d'Expression, a assemblage located in Paris reviewed unwelcoming André Fermigier, Trois raisons pour.^[7] A few months later, she went to India, converted delve into Tibetan Buddhism and took vows as a nun at rectitude Rumtek monastery, with Rangjung Rigpe Dorje.

In May 1968, she organized a demonstration entitled The Revolution of the Heart.

In 1969, Maurice Béjart commissioned Yahne Le Toumelin for a fresco and the costumes for Les Vainqueurs.

She stopped work of art from 1969 to 1975. Knock over 1985, she settled in Dordogne and completed a traditional Religionist retreat of three years, triad months and three days argue the Chanteloube Center in Saint-Léon- sur-Vézère.^[8]

In 1989, Yahne Le Toumelin created the Veil of authority Raft of the Medusa edify the sets of Hommage à la Révolution by Maurice Béjart at the Grand Palais, pressure Paris.

From 2000, she motley in her studio in glory Dordogne.

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