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Yahne Le Toumelin
French painter (1923–2023)
Yahne Le Toumelin (27 July 1923 Paris - 8 May 2023 Tursac) was a Buddhist nun and French painter. Beginning in the 1950s, she was a surrealist and abstract artist.[1]
Life
Yahne Le Toumelin was born in Paris, and grew up in Le Croisic.
In 1940, she was admitted to the Beaux-Arts de Paris. She studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. She joined André Lhote's workshop where she met Henri Cartier-Bresson.
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In 1942, she met Georges Gurdjieff, René Daumal, Lanza del Vasto and Luc Dietrich.[2]
She was commissioned by Pierre Schaeffer and Jacques Copeau to produce radio programs of artistic works at the RTF.
In 1947, she appeared in Le Désordre à Twenty ans, by Jacques Baratier, alongside Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Boris Vian, Orson Welles, Jean Cocteau and Juliette Gréco.
She met Jean-François Revel who proposed to her in the summer of 1945.
In 1946 they had a son, Matthieu Ricard. Fro