1. Evelyne Axell is best known for her psychedelic, erotic paintings of female nudes and self-portraits on plexiglas that blend the hedonistic and Pop impulses of the 1960s.
12 Facts About Evelyne Axell
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Evelyne Axell's father, Andre Devaux, was a well known craftsman in silverware and jewelry in the region and her mother, Mariette Godu, came from a very modest family.
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Evelyne Axell decided to change her name to Evelyne Axell for the purposes of her acting career, which her husband encouraged.
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Evelyne Axell cast her as an interviewer in Jeunes Artistes de Namur in which she introduced young avant-garde Belgian painters.
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In 1964, Evelyne Axell quit her promising acting career to pursue painting.
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Evelyne Axell enlisted Surrealist painter Rene Magritte, a family friend of Antoine's, to be her artistic mentor.
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Evelyne Axell visited with Magritte twice a month for a whole year, during which time he helped her improve her oil painting technique.
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Evelyne Axell went with Antoine to London for filming and met Allen Jones, Peter Phillips, Pauline Boty, Peter Blake, Patrick Caulfield, and Joe Tilson.
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Evelyne Axell organized a few illicit happenings as she continued to make increasingly erotic paintings.
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In 1972 Evelyne Axell visited her uncle's family in Guatemala, Jean Devaux, the creator of the Guatemala Ballet, where she became enamored with the landscape and vowed to return.
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Evelyne Axell had secured an exhibition in Mexico for 1973, decided to divorce from her husband and move to Central America for a few years where she had found a nice house in Guatemala with the help of the Devaux family.
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Evelyne Axell died in the early morning of 10 September 1972.