From Art To Life And Back

About the Book

About the Author

Having been an art critic for the International edition of The New York Herald Tribune, Yvonne Hagen has a remarkable story to tell. After WW II, Hagen got to know many of the American and French artists who mingled in Paris’ exciting art world. Her book is an immensely instructive account of these people and this period as seen through the eyes of an unconventional and engaging young woman. Yvonne Hagen was born in France in 1920. Her extensive art background includes studies in New York, Berlin and Paris where she became the art editor and weekly columnist for The International Herald Tribune. She has worked as a translator and has written for the French art magazine Art Aujourd’hui as well as The American Magazine of Art. Yvonne Hagen has also served as the art director for the The Museum of Modern Art in Munich. She lives in Sagaponack, New York