Artist Alix Ayme

Artistic life of Paris of the first half of the twentieth century was characterized by numerous areas in the visual arts. Representatives of the new artistic movements united in groups, often joined together in considerable controversy, and this served as a powerful impetus to further development of the art. At the same time, all of these various trends and directions miraculously created a special world, which today is an extremely elegant and attractive.




  Little known to the Russian audience painter, graphic artist, illustrator, painter, muralist Alix Ayme (Alix Angele Marguerite Hava) was born in Marseille in 1894, in the era between the two world wars. Throughout his life, Ayme was exhibited in Paris, Saigon, Florence, worked for the church in Normandy, but did not become famous. Maybe in life Ayme was too much expensive and there was no time taking care of his glory. It crossed France, Algeria, Turkey, Egypt, India, Sri Lanka, China, Laos, Vietnam, Korea, Japan. Her life has been like a minefield on the real fault lines. Sometimes she felt lost, navigating through a world full of pain and anger.


Portret young woman

 

Natyurmort. glass painting, tempera and gold leaf

From an early age Alix was engaged in drawing and music at the Conservatory of Toulouse. Miracle, gifted in music, she was fifteen years old won a gold medal in the competition piano music and thought his future career, before she became an artist. After graduating from the conservatory, moved to Paris and became a student and then a colleague of the artist Maurice Denis. Together they created the scenery Theatre des Champs Elysees and labor in the workshop of Sacred Art. In 1920, Alix Ayme married and moved to Shanghai with her first husband, Professor Paul de Fautereau-Vassel, who was sent to the Franco-Chinese mission to the country. In 1926, the family returned to Paris, where he was born their son Michel. Alix collaborated with the publishing Rudyard Kipling's Kim. After a trip to Ceylon husband decided to stay in Paris, and Alix Ayme devoted herself to Asia.

Peyzazh. Panel, gold paint, varnish




Rynok in Hanoi

More than twenty years Alix Ayme lived in the East and has shared his career between Paris, where it was exhibited in the gallery Moullot, and Indo-China, India, Japan and even Africa, which is interested in Asian art techniques: painting on silk, watercolor, black ink, painting on glass . In July, 1931, in Paris, Alix second time married husband for Colonel Georges Ayme, who during the Second World War was the commander of the French army in Indochina. In March 1945, the Japanese captured Aymes and two sons. Senior, Michelle, died in a concentration camp.


Materinstvo

Portret boy. watercolor on silk

Razdumya young man. (portrait of his son shortly before his death)

Krasnaya vase

Portrait of young woman

Portrait of François Facing


After returning to Paris in 1945, Alix Ayme taken as decoration of the chapel in Luc-sur-Mer (Calvados). In 1948, an exhibition in the Galerie Moullot in Paris, Alix moved to a studio apartment in Porte de St. Cloud, where she continued to live and work after her husband's death in 1950. This was followed by an exhibition in the Galerie de la France d'Outremer, Florence, Monaco. Alix Ayme died in 1989 at age 95. Her works are in private collections, as well as in the Cabinet des Dessins in the Louvre, the Museum des Années Trente in Paris, the Museum of Fine Arts in La Rochelle, and the Royal Palace in Luang Prabang, Laos.

Yasuo Kuniyoshi paintings