Yahne Le Toumelin
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. 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. In 1942, she met George Gurdjieff, Georges Gurdjieff, René Daumal, Lanza del Vasto and Luc Dietrich. 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. From 1947 to 1948, the couple moved to Tlemcen in Algeria ...
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