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Félix Labisse Set designer
Biography
Félix Labisse, born in 1905, was a French Surrealist painter and set and costume designer for theatre, dance and opera. In 1929, he wrote the scenario for Pour vos beaux yeux, a short film directed by Henri Storck. This first project marked the beginning of a long association between Labisse and the world of cinema. In 1930, he founded Tribord, a literary and artistic magazine, and completed a narrative entitled La déesse. In 1935, he designed the sets and costumes for Autour d’une mère, based on William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying. This was the first production directed by Jean-Louis Barrault at the Théâtre de l’Atelier. Labisse met Jacques Prévert and André Masson.
In 1937, he met Max Ernst, followed by Raymond Queneau. In January 1938, he exhibited at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. In 1942, he settled in Montparnasse, where he frequented Robert Desnos, Paul Éluard, Georges Hugnet and Pablo Picasso. He designed the sets and costumes for Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Paul Claudel’s L’Annonce faite à Marie, staged by Christian Casadesus and the Compagnie du Regain. He became associated with the activities of the “Revolutionary Surrealism” group, which was condemned by André Breton.
Labisse went on to design the sets and costumes for The Trial by Franz Kafka, adapted by André Gide and directed by Jean-Louis Barrault at the Théâtre Marigny. Alain Resnais dedicated a short film to him. In 1948, Labisse designed the sets for Paul Claudel’s Le Partage de Midi, directed by Jean-Louis Barrault at the Théâtre Marigny, and for Jean-Paul Sartre’s Le Diable et le Bon Dieu, directed by Louis Jouvet at the Théâtre Antoine. In 1974, he served on the jury for the official selection of the Cannes Film Festival. He died in 1982.
Currently in
- Palais Garnier
- from 03 to 06 April 2027
