JACQUELINE LAMBA, DORA MAAR, CELLES QUI AVANCENT from 12th September to 16th November 2024 at the Galerie Pauline Pavec (Paris) and the Galerie Boquet (Paris)

Galerie Pauline Pavec :

4, rue de Jarente
75004 Paris

Galerie Boquet:

20, rue Visconti
75006 Paris

To mark the centenary of the Surrealist Manifesto, the Pauline Pavec gallery (from 12th September 2024) and the Boquet gallery (from 19th September 2024) are delighted to present a joint exhibition in their two venues, highlighting the intertwined careers of two women artists whose friendship spanned the 20th century: Jacqueline Lamba and Dora Maar.

Illustrated by a profusion of archives and photographs, the exhibition will showcase works from the 1930s to the 1970s, from surrealism to abstraction, including some rare and previously unseen pieces by both artists, such as a unique fold-out notebook by Dora Maar showing a series of portraits of Jacqueline Lamba, major paintings by Lamba and ink landscapes by the two artists that are disturbing because of the formal links that unite them.

Jacqueline Lamba and Dora Maar met in 1926 at the Union Centrale des Arts Décoratifs, and would continue to rub shoulders, particularly at pivotal moments in their lives, such as during the summer of 1939, when Dora Maar took iconic photographs of Jacqueline Lamba, as well as portraits of the young Aube Breton.

Accompanied by a catalogue with texts by the artists’ two biographers Victoria Combalia for Dora Maar – historian, art critic, professor at the University of Barcelona, PhD in Art History and exhibition curator – and Alba Romano-Pace for Jacqueline Lamba – art historian, exhibition curator and professor at the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts in Turin – this exhibition will highlight the important role played by these two women artists who, far more than witnesses, are in fact actors whose research reveals the major upheavals in twentieth-century art.

The exhibition is part of the Surrealism in Paris programme organised by the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Atelier André Breton and the Comité professionnel des galeries d’art.

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