Background
Félix Labisse was born on March 9, 1905, in Marchiennes, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.
Félix Labisse was born on March 9, 1905, in Marchiennes, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.
Felix Labisse started painting in 1922. In that time, he met James Ensor, who became his lifelong friend. In 1927 he set up his studio in Ostend, where he was associated not only with Ensor, but also with constant Permeke and Léon Spilliaert, and with the poets Henri van de Putte, Jean Teugels and Michel de Ghelderode, and the film maker Henri Storck.
In 1928 Labisse and Storck founded the Ciné club in Ostend, which disseminated avant-garde films by Man Ray, Carl Dreyer and Fritz Lang, and he made a film of his own, La mort de Vénus. In 1930 he founded the literary review Tribord, which ran to eight issues.
From 1932 he settled in Paris and in 1935 came to know Paul Delvaux, Max Ernst, André Masson and René Magritte. The first work which can be recognised as surrealist is his Ancient comedians of 1937.
Felix painted the first painting of a series of blue women in 1960.
Le grand depayseur
1964Les presage de la guerre
1940Trois Masques
1933Grand carnival Ostendais
1934Le soir du 8 decembre
1963Libidoscaphe Epongeur
1962La demande en mariage
1929Six Selenides
1966Le delassement de l'odalisque
1968Cotyo, Perfica, Volupie
1963Olympias
1971La bonne conduite
1950Mantes religieuses
1943Le soleil du dimanche
1954Histoire Naturelle
1943Le 14 juillet a pointe-a-pitre
1968La Thebaide
1978Le Enchanter
1938La revolte des Anges
1952Theroigne de Mericourt
1971Procession en Flandres II
1933La vanossa concubine du pap
1969Jeune figue posant pour Leonard de Vinci
1946Sukirah
1977