Rene Laubies, new bio blurb

Rene Laubies was a painter, translator, writer and Chan master though more Taoistic in quintessence. 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 though Catholic. 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.