Laurence Iché

Laurence Iché (9 April 19219 September 2007) was a French writer.

Biography Laurence Iché was born in Saint-Étienne on 9 April 1921. She was the daughter of the sculptor René Iché and Rosa Achard. As a young girl, Iché posed as a model for her father, as well as for Pablo Picasso, Victor Brauner and other artists. In 1937, at the age of sixteen, she was placed into a Benedictine convent at the suggestion of Max Jacob, but her stay there was brief.

Beginning in 1939, she began to write stories, articles and poetry. She also translated poetry by Camilo José Cela into French. Her book of stories Etagère en flamme, cuentos, illustrated by Picasso, was published in 1943 and included two of her stories, "Unpublished Correspondence" and "The Philosophers' Stone."

In 1940, she joined the French resistance against Nazi occupation. She modelled for René Iché's piece, la Déchirée. Sculpted from bronze, this piece was an important symbol of the resistance movement. It was gifted to Charles de Gaulle in London, but the sculpture has since disappeared. In 1949, she married the Spanish painter until his death in on 8 March 1987 from lung cancer.

Iché died in Madrid at the age of 86.