René Laubies

René Laubies (1917–2006) was a Colonial French painter, translator, traveler and writer associated with the Lyrical Abstraction, Arte Informale and Tachism movements though particularly linked to the Nuagisme (Cloudism) painters.

[1] Laubies was born in Cholon in the Imperial French Colony of Cochin-china to a well-off family.

His mother was of solid Sinitic roots from a line of upland Phu-Ly Dynasty of Annamese Mandarins.

Laubies was the recipient of the coveted Fénéon Prize for visual art in 1954.

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