René Laubies 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.L' exposition Le nuagisme même. Lyon (France). Musée des beaux-arts, 1973.
Biography His father was Réunionnaise French-Colonial. 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. He collaborated with American poet Robert Creeley.
References
External links Cloutier, Guy. N.d. Untitled document. http://guycloutier.org/Laubies.htm. On Rene Laubies. Clouds, 23.7.07. Problematization in Laubies Work. Clouds, 14.3.09.