ARTIST ALIX AYME (ALIX ANGELE MARGUERITE HAVA)
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Artistic life in Paris of the first half of the twentieth century is characterized by numerous directions 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 arts. At the same time, all these different trends and directions miraculously created the special world, which today is extremely elegant and attractive.
Little known to the Russian audience painter, graphic artist, illustrator, painter, muralistAlix 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. She crossed to France, Algeria, Turkey, Egypt, India, Sri Lanka, China, Laos, Vietnam, Korea, Japan. Her life began as a minefield on the real fault lines. Sometimes she felt lost, navigating through a world full of pain and anger.
From an early age Alix engaged in drawing and music at the conservatory in Toulouse. Miracle, gifted in music, she was fifteen years old won the gold medal in the competition piano music and considered their future career, before he became an artist. After graduation, he moved to Paris and became a student and then a colleague, artist Maurice Denis. Together they created the scenery Theatre des Champs Elysees and worked in the studio of Sacred Art. In 1920, Alix Ayme got married and moved to Shanghai with her first husband, Professor Paul de Fautereau-Vassel, which was directed by Franco-Chinese mission to the country. In 1926 the family returned to Paris, where he was born their son Michel. Alix has collaborated with the publishing house Rudyard Kipling's Kim. After a trip to Ceylon husband decided to stay in Paris and dedicated himself Alix Ayme Asia.
More than twenty years Alix Ayme lived in the East, and divided 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 for the second time Alix married husband of Colonel Georges Ayme, who during World War II, 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.
Portrait of a young woman
Portrait of François Facing
After returning to Paris in 1945, Alix Ayme taken for decoration of the chapel in Luc-sur-Mer (Calvados). In 1948, an exhibition at Galerie Moullot in Paris, Alix moved into a studio apartment in Porte de St. Cloud, where she continues 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.