Yolande Fièvre

Yolande Fièvre is a French painter and sculptor, born in Paris on January 25, 1907 and died in Paris in 1983.

As a young traveler, she visited America and lived in Egypt for a few years. A student at the Beaux-Arts in Paris, later a professor at the Beaux-Arts in Orléans, she asserted her position as an autodidact very early on. Jean Paulhan, André Breton, Bernard Requichot, Jean Dubuffet, Raymond Queneau will be his friends.

She embarked on passionate research and exciting experiments on matter, often organic, which gave a rather strange appearance to her reliefs, one would believe in a fantastic, lunar world.

These are collages or rather “assemblages" where objects are displayed, object boxes or somewhat special kinds of reliquaries. We can see a sectional plan of buildings whose side wall has collapsed, letting the eye discover between the partitions shapeless beings (deformed or unfinished): their heads are gnawed pebbles, their bodies, driftwood, sometimes with a jaw bone or ridge to complete the decor.