JACQUELINE LAMBA – RYTHM OF NATURE du 18 au 20 octobre 2024 à Art Basel [2024] Miami
1901 Convention Center Drive
Miami Beach, FL 33139
The Weinstein Gallery (Booth S13, Art Basel) presents a selection of eleven works by Jacqueline Lamba, showcasing her artistic journey from 1935 to 1980. Among them are rare survivors from her surrealist period, Pour la Poche (1935) and Le Baliseur (1937).Later works like Spirale et village (1946) and White Rose and Red Shadow (1951) reflect the profound impact that the landscapes of the American Southwest and Native American reservations – which she explored with David Hare – had on her.
LA BOÎTE EN VALISE POUR JACQUELINE LAMBA DE MONIQUE DEREGIBUS from 28th August to 29th November 2020 at Biennale européenne de création contemporaine, Manifesta 13 (Marseille)
Marseille 13055
The European Biennial of Contemporary Creation, Manifesta 13 Marseille, held in Marseille from August 28th to November 29th, 2020, featured a group exhibition at The American Gallery of Contemporary Art, directed by Pamela King. Titled Disobey Orders, Save the Artists, the show brought together 13 artists around the figure of Varian Fry and the artists who lived in Marseille during the 1940s under the Vichy regime. As part of this project, seven young artists reimagined the famous Marseille Tarot Game.
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Fighting in exile. Artists and France 1939-1945 from 26th February to 22nd June 2025 at Musée de l’Armée (Paris)
129, rue de Grenelle 75007 Paris
At the Musée de l’Armée, exhibition curators Vincent Giraudier and Sylvie Le Ray-Burimi invite us to focus on cultural resistance or – as the preface of the catalog reminds us – the “French spirit” dear to General de Gaulle. This is carried around the world by artists in exile between 1939 and 1945.
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RENDEZ-VOUS OF DREAMS : SURREALISM AND GERMAN ROMANTICISM from 13th June to 12th October 2025 at the Hamburg Kunsthalle
Glockengießerwall 5 20095 Hamburg
On the occasion of the centenary of the Surrealist Manifesto, the Kunsthalle Hamburg offers an encounter between the Surrealists and the German Romantics.
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.
JACQUELINE LAMBA – PAINTER, from 11th March to 22nd April 2023, at the Galerie Weinstein (San Francisco)
444, Clementina St, San Francisco CA 94103
To mark its 30th anniversary, Weinstein Gallery is organising an exhibition titled ‘Jacqueline Lamba – Painter’. This is a retrospective of over forty paintings and works produced between 1927 and 1986. This exhibition will be Lamba’s first in a gallery in the United States since seventy-four years ago, when she exhibited at the Norlyst Gallery in New York.
FEMALE SURREALISM, from 31st March to 10th September 2023, at the Musée de Montmartre (Paris)
12, rue Cortot 75018 Paris
The Musée de Montmartre is displaying an exhibition exploring the different degrees and ways women artists and poets adhered to the Surrealist movement. Fifty of them, including Jacqueline Lamba, are represented in the exhibition, with nearly 150 works on display.
Veilleuse, circa 1938. Encre de Chine et grattage sur papier cartonné, 24 x 19 cm.
A provocative and dynamic movement, surrealism triggered aesthetic renewal and ethical upheaval in the 20th century. Men were not the only ones to bring this movement and its transgressions to life: many women were major players in the movement, but they were underestimated by museums and art market. The aim of the exhibition is therefore to present major artists such as Claude Cahun, Toyen, Dora Maar, Lee Miller, Meret Oppenheim and Leonora Carrington, as well as highlighting lesser-known figures such as Marion Adnams, Ithell Colquhoun, Grace Pailthorpe, Jane Graverol, Suzanne Van Damme, Rita Kernn-Larsenn, Franciska Clausen, Josette Exandier and Yahne Le Toumelin.
Behind the sun, 1943. Huile sur toile, 61 x 66 cm.
Surrealism offered them a framework for expression and creativity that was probably unparalleled in others avant-garde movements. Yet it was often by appropriating and extending themes initiated by the movement’s ‘leaders’ that they expressed their freedom. It was also by freeing themselves from what sometimes became a surrealist doxa that they asserted themselves. ‘Against’ Surrealism is how we might define their diverse and complex positions towards the movement.
By showcasing the work of some fifty artists, visual artists, photographers and poets from all over the world, this exhibition invites us to reflect not only on the ambivalent position of women in Surrealism, but also on the ability of one of the 20th century’s major currents to integrate the feminine within it. The question mark in the title expresses the suspense that underlies this exhibition, conceived as a hypothesis rather than a demonstration.
FRIDA KAHLO (1907-1954) : AU-DELÀ DES APPARENCES, from 15th September 2022 to 2nd January 2023, at Palais Galliera (Paris)
10, avenue Pierre Ier de Serbie 75016 Paris
The Paris fashion museum explores the artist’s world through the prism of her personal effects, rediscovered in 2004, including clothes, prostheses and perfume bottles, often re-appropriated by the Mexican artist.
UN ARC-EN-CIEL EN PLEINE NUIT, from 29th March to 14th May 2022, at Galerie Pauline Pavec (Paris)
4, rue de Jarente 75004 Paris, France
Exhibition at the Galerie Pauline Pavec Un-arc-en ciel en pleine nuit from 29th March to 14th May 2022, in collaboration with Aube Breton Élléouët , Oona Élléouët and Merlin Hare. The gallery will be displaying paintings from her Nuages series, produced between the 1960s and 1980s.
Jacqueline Lamba’s works are also being unveiled by the gallery for Art Paris Art Fair from 7th to 10th April 2022. On this occasion Jacqueline Lamba is part of Alfred Pacquement’s selection on the them of Natural Histories.
The gallery will also present Jacqueline Lamba’s work at Tefaf Maastricht between 24th and 30th June 2022.
‘Jacqueline Lamba, L’Amour fou d’André Breton, named after the poetic essay dedicated to her by the founder of Surrealism, devoted her entire life to painting, beginning with her training at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs. Married to André Breton a few months after meeting the poet in 1934, who described her as ‘scandalously beautiful’, she took part in the Surrealist group’s exhibitions, such as the one at the Charles Ratton gallery in 1936, where she presented poem-objects. From Paris to New York via Mexico, her itinerary brought her into contact with many of the group’s figures, while she developed a friendship with Dora Maar and Frida Kahlo. In the USA, and after her return to France in 1955, her painting moved away from surrealism towards a more abstract approach in which the influence of Picasso was felt. It was from the 1960s onwards that her work found its definitive style, a painting of light that evoked the nature she had before her eyes, particularly in the village in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence where she spent her summers. On canvas, she suggested skies studded with spots and points of light. ‘The secret,’ she wrote, ‘would be to capture on canvas each shape in its light, that is, at the precise moment when the light becomes the shape. It would be like seeing a rainbow in the middle of the night.’
Translation from : Alfred Pacquement, Histoires naturelles : un regard sur la scène française,
Art Paris 2022, p. 38-39.
