Jacqueline Lamba

Jacqueline Lamba (Paris, 1910 - Paris, 1993) is a painter Surréaliste.

Biography

She studies decorative arts in Paris. In 1934, it meets André Breton, their meeting coinciding with a premonitory poem which he wrote in 1923, “the Night of the sunflower”. They marry and have a girl, Aube Elléouët, in 1935. It exposes to London in 1936 and Tokyo the following year. the insane Love (1937) is partly devoted to him.

She works in the surrealist spirit (automatic objects, drawings), then chooses more the influences of Roberto Matta or André Masson for her " paintings prismatiques". In 1941, it settles with New York. Breton and it separate in 1943. She marries the sculptor and photographer David Hare, and they have a son, Merlin. She exposes to the Museum of modern art of San Francisco in 1946, with the Pierre gallery in Paris in 1947. She leaves David Hare in 1955 and returns to France. The landscapes provençaux become a new source of inspiration, and it continues to paint until its death in 1993.

In 2005, documentary realized by Fabrice Maze is devoted to him.

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