Untitled, 1958. Watercolour on paper, 49cm x 63, 8cm.
‘I am thinking, as I write this, of Jacqueline Lamba…’. To coincide with the forthcoming publication of Yves Bonnefoy’s Œuvres in the Pléiade, we are republishing this text, written in 1967 on the occasion of an exhibition of Jacqueline Lamba’s paintings in Antibes.
In 1963, Jacqueline Lamba was invited by her long-time friends Henri Laugier and Marie Cuttoli to Simiane, a medieval village in the Alpes de Haute Provence, surrounded by lavender fields. The discovery of the region is overwhelming. So much so that they lent her the house every summer for 17 years, from June to October. She painted from dawn in the morning, and spent her afternoons walking until dusk. She received rare visitors and led an almost monastic life.
Picture of Jacqueline Lamba and André Breton’s wedding, by Man Ray, 1934
Jacqueline met the sculptor when she joined the Surrealist group on 29th May 1934 – the day she met André Breton. The friendship between the two artists was immediate and strong. Alberto, a regular visitor to the rue Fontaine, was even the best man at their wedding on 14th August of the same year, alongside Paul Éluard.
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