Laubies on Nuagiste procedure

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When a Chinese painter of the ancient high period began to paint, he first burned incense and gathered his thoughts in the calm of silenc...

Laubies, Aphorism No. 8

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Pre-war abstract and geometric painting (Mondrian, Kandinsky, Circle and Square, De Stilj) has no great diffusion. It's only after 19...

Jean Fautrier

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Passing through "la Vallée-aux-Loups", one arrived to Messagier's house. Fautrier had filled it with old furniture, dolls, I...

Mark Tobey

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Faithful to the characters of Henry James he descended upon the Hotel Albany: gilt candelabras and cuddly toys 1900. He arrived from Basel...

Jean-Pierre Wilhelm ["A Germany turned in on itself"]

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When I was tired of swallowing the snakes on which Paris nourishes its painters, I left either for Italo Magliano 's place in Milan, ...

Alexandre Iolas

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His room at the Hotel Crillon was the cave of Ali-Baba: Greek marble, Egyptian statues, Matisse and Braque, small Max Ernst and Brauner, ...

Colette Allendy

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Petite and replete, she reigned in her own Hotel de Passy where Artaud had put together " The Cenci ." She was surrounded by th...

Matta

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At Matta's, one fills the swimming pool: "This pipe is me, all the money that I make sets out again immediately. My women, my fa...

Nina Kandinsky

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Nina, forever young at 80 years, walked through Gastaat with all of her diamonds on day and night. One night she was strangled by and for ...

Peggy Guggenheim

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I knew Peggy Guggenheim from Facchetti's place. She had recommended a painter to me with whom I became friends, and although very beau...

My third winter season in Palakunnu (2010)

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Palakunnu village is especially nice this year. And to think that we nearly decided not to come! We arrived to Cochin by flight from Kual...
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Laubies show at Galerie Alain Margaron (Paris)

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There is currently a showing of Laubies' works at Gallery Alain Margaron in Paris featuring forty works – oils, inks, and wate...

Laubies, Aphorism No. 1

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In the life of a painter the only happy moment is when he paints. Painting finished the annoyances begin. He has to show the painting, sub...

Laubies, Aphorism No. 4

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Hostility always stimulates me. With nothing to lose, I have the taste to displease. It is not out of pride, but seeing what they like, one...

Laubies, Aphorism No. 5

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The French never love painting and are always dupes: Louis XIV preferred Le Brun to Poussin, and in 1900 one bought L'art pompier and ...

Laubies, Aphorism No. 10

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French critics would want that the dripping of Pollock comes from Masson, whereas it is known that the Chinese of the high time had dippe...

Laubies, Aphorism No. 11

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From 1950 to 1960 there was not a day in Paris without quarrels, excommunications, insults between critics, galleries and painters. Julien...

Simone Collinet ex-Breton

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In her gallery, at Duncan's place, one could buy in 1949, for tiny sums, Tanguy, Max Ernst, Dalí, Masson, etc, all the surrealism that...

Yves Klein

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On the beach at Nice. Iris [Clert], Yves Klein and me. Iris, to annoy Yves, praises my legs incessantly. After five minutes he stands: ...

George Salles

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Great Lord, heir to the Eiffel Tower and director of the Louvre. He had taste at the time for ancient arts and modern painting that he col...