Yudhisthira Jean Piqué

Biography

"born in Louisiana, 1918. His father came from France as a young man and married Anita Edith Phelps, a daughter of an old Louisiana Family. On his mother's side he has an English, Bavarian and Hindu ancestry; hence the name Yudhisthira. Coming to new York in 1935, he studied at the Design Laboratory, an off-shoot of the Bauhaus. He continued his travels abroad in France, Holland, Belgium and England. After a year's absence he began the serious study of the ancient Indian Scriptures, including Gupta, Hindu and Buddhist iconography. Now in the exhibition department of Cooper Union, New York City" (Modern Art in Advertising).