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ALIX AYMÉ (1894 - 1989)
Famille et animaux, circa 1940
Ink and color on silk, signed lower left
29 x 43 cm - 11 3/8 x 16 7/8 in.
Alix Hava, known by her married name Alix Aymé, was born in Marseille on 21 March 1894. She moved with her family to Martinique in 1909, and then to England before the First World War. On her return to Paris, she studied with George Desvallières and Maurice Denis, with whom she maintained a close correspondence throughout her career. She took part in French artistic life and regularly exhibited her work at Parisian salons (Salon des artistes français, Salon d’hiver, Salon des décorateurs etc.) and in galleries.
It was while accompanying her husband, Paul de Fautereau-Vassel, a professor appointed to Shanghai, that the artist developed a passion for the Asian continent. The couple settled in Hanoi in 1921. Alix taught drawing at the technical high school and painted in her studio. She signed her works with her name Alix de Fautereau. Michel, their son, was born in 1926.
Teaching drawing at the Albert-Sarraut high school, it is closer to the School of Fine Arts of Indochina where she taught in 1935, and occupied in 1936 a position as technical professor. She is interested in working on silk and contributes to developing learning the art of lacquer alongside Joseph Inguimberty. Very present with the students of the School, she provides them with lots of advice and transmits his passion for this astonishing medium. His favorite subjects revolve around motherhood and childhood, taking as models young Vietnamese women around him or again each of his sons. His workshop serves him decor. Curtain drapes and throws fabrics allow him to deepen his work of light initiated during its formation.
After 1945 events, the couple returned definitively in Paris, where General Aymé died in 1950 as a result of his recent captivity. What follows for Alix Aymé the order of large lacquer panels for the liner Antilles and numerous exhibitions in Paris, in the provinces, as well as in Morocco and Italy. She decorates Bảo Đại’s apartment. Friend of Foujita and the Saint-Exupéry family, she frequents intellectual, literary and Parisian artistic establishments, where his spirit is expressed open, lively, free and curious. Until the end of his life, Alix Aymé practices the very particular technique of lacquer art. She continues to travel never without her sketchbooks and thus, at sixty-eight years old, stays eight months at Congo. She died in 1989 near Paris.
Famille et animaux, circa 1940
Ink and color on silk, signed lower left
29 x 43 cm - 11 3/8 x 16 7/8 in.
Alix Hava, known by her married name Alix Aymé, was born in Marseille on 21 March 1894. She moved with her family to Martinique in 1909, and then to England before the First World War. On her return to Paris, she studied with George Desvallières and Maurice Denis, with whom she maintained a close correspondence throughout her career. She took part in French artistic life and regularly exhibited her work at Parisian salons (Salon des artistes français, Salon d’hiver, Salon des décorateurs etc.) and in galleries.
It was while accompanying her husband, Paul de Fautereau-Vassel, a professor appointed to Shanghai, that the artist developed a passion for the Asian continent. The couple settled in Hanoi in 1921. Alix taught drawing at the technical high school and painted in her studio. She signed her works with her name Alix de Fautereau. Michel, their son, was born in 1926.
Teaching drawing at the Albert-Sarraut high school, it is closer to the School of Fine Arts of Indochina where she taught in 1935, and occupied in 1936 a position as technical professor. She is interested in working on silk and contributes to developing learning the art of lacquer alongside Joseph Inguimberty. Very present with the students of the School, she provides them with lots of advice and transmits his passion for this astonishing medium. His favorite subjects revolve around motherhood and childhood, taking as models young Vietnamese women around him or again each of his sons. His workshop serves him decor. Curtain drapes and throws fabrics allow him to deepen his work of light initiated during its formation.
After 1945 events, the couple returned definitively in Paris, where General Aymé died in 1950 as a result of his recent captivity. What follows for Alix Aymé the order of large lacquer panels for the liner Antilles and numerous exhibitions in Paris, in the provinces, as well as in Morocco and Italy. She decorates Bảo Đại’s apartment. Friend of Foujita and the Saint-Exupéry family, she frequents intellectual, literary and Parisian artistic establishments, where his spirit is expressed open, lively, free and curious. Until the end of his life, Alix Aymé practices the very particular technique of lacquer art. She continues to travel never without her sketchbooks and thus, at sixty-eight years old, stays eight months at Congo. She died in 1989 near Paris.