Alix Aymé (French, 1894-1989) Plum Blossom

Alix Aymé (French, 1894-1989)
Plum Blossom

signed ALIX AYMÉ (lower right)
gold foil, eggshell and lacquer on wood panel

40.5 x 60 cm (16 x 23 5/8 in)
雅麗克絲·艾美
梅花綻放
金箔、蛋殼及漆 木板

簽名：ALIX AYMÉ（右下）

Alix Aymé was born in 1894 in Marseille. After her studies at the Music Conservatory in Toulouse, she studied under Maurice Denis, one of the founders of the Nabis group in France.

During the early 1920s, Alix Aymé accompanied her diplomat husband to Asia, where she discovered the technique of lacquer art. Later, she was appointed as a teacher at the Albert Sarraut High School in Vietnam, teaching alongside Joseph Inguimberty and under the direction of Victor Tardieu. Together with Inguimberty, they opened a lacquer painting workshop at the École des Beaux-Arts de l'Indochine (EBAI) in Hanoi. This workshop left a lasting and profound influence on the artistic approach embraced by EBAI students, significantly shaping the evolution of Vietnamese lacquer painting as an art form.

Alix Aymé's paintings were crafted in a very personal manner, drawing inspiration from the large and flat golden backgrounds of Japanese lacquer, as well as from the Western styles of Art Deco and Nabis. She employed various techniques such as etching, painting on silk, watercolour, black ink, tempera, lacquer, etc.