Yahne le toumelin biography books

French painter (1923–2023)

Yahne Schmooze Toumelin (27 July 1923 Town - 8 May 2023 Tursac) was a Buddhist nun be first French painter. Beginning in high-mindedness 1950s, she was a surrealist and abstract artist.^[1]

Life

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

In 1940, she was manifest to the Beaux-Arts de Town. She studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. She joined André Lhote's workshop she met Henri Cartier-Bresson.

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

She was appointed by Pierre Schaeffer and Jacques Copeau to produce radio programs of artistic works at decency RTF.

In 1947, she exposed in Le Désordre à Xx ans, by Jacques Baratier, parallel Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Libber, Boris Vian, Orson Welles, Pants Cocteau and Juliette Gréco.

She met Jean-François Revel who minor to her in the summertime of 1945. In 1946 they had a son, Matthieu Ricard. From 1947 to 1948, magnanimity couple moved to Tlemcen instruct in Algeria where Jean-François Revel was appointed professor.

In 1948, Ève Ricard was born.^[3]

From 1950 contact 1952, she moved to Mexico where Jean-François Revel was tailor-made accoutred professor at the French Institution of Latin America (IFAL). Delicate Mexico, she became friends occur to Leonora Carrington.

In 1951, she created a geometric fresco yearn the French Institute of Denizen America and painted film posters for the first film cudgel in Mexico  which included Benzoin Péret, Luis Buñuel, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Mario Solon Llosa.^[4]

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

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

In 1956, she returned to Paris; she met the artist Georges Mathieu and became friends with Pierre Soulages and Zao Wou-Ki. Hold 1957, she exhibited more better 100 paintings at the Orsay gallery and participated in illustriousness edition of the catalog prefaced by André Breton.

André Frenchman complemented her work in Surrealism and Painting, which was promulgated by Gallimard in 1965.^[5][6]

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

In 1967, she opened the Center d'Expression, expert gallery located in Paris reviewed by André Fermigier, Trois raisons pour.^[7] A few months ulterior, she went to India, reborn to Tibetan Buddhism and took vows as a nun survey the Rumtek monastery, with Rangjung Rigpe Dorje.

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

In 1969, Maurice Béjart accredited Yahne Le Toumelin for far-out fresco and the costumes dole out Les Vainqueurs.

She stopped picture from 1969 to 1975. Link with 1985, she settled in Dordogne and completed a traditional Buddhistic retreat of three years, pair months and three days heroic act the Chanteloube Center in Saint-Léon- sur-Vézère.^[8]

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

From 2000, she stained in her studio in honourableness Dordogne.

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