Rene Laubies, new bio blurb

Rene Laubies was a painter, translator, traveler and writer. He was born in Cholon in the Imperial French Colony of Cochin-china to a well-off family around 1917. His father was Réunionnaise French-Colonial. His mother was of solid Sinitic roots of Dynastic upland Phủ Lý Annamese Mandarins. He died in the pauper's ward of the Government Hospital in Mangalore India on the morning of 13 November 2006.

He is associated with Tachisme and Art Informel, but particularly linked to Nuagisme or the "Cloudist" group of painters.