TEFAF MAASTRICHT

For this new participation in TEFAF Maastricht 2026, Pavec gallery is presenting, within the general sector of the fair, an unprecedented project dedicated to five major figures of modernity: Marie Bracquemond (1840–1916), Jeanne Selmersheim-Desgrange (1877–1958), Juliette Roche (1884–1980), Jacqueline Lamba (1910–1993), and Madeleine Dinès (1906–1996). Through this selection, the gallery pays tribute to five women artists who crossed and shaped the leading avant-garde movements of the late 19th and 20th centuries, and whose contributions remain largely unacknowledged.

Committed to the rediscovery and valorization of historically overlooked artists, Pavec presents in Maastricht a project spanning nearly a century of creation, from 1860 to 1960, bringing together rare works that testify to the essential involvement of these women artists in the major movements of modernity: Impressionism, Neo-Impressionism, the Nabi movement, Cubism, Dada, Surrealism, the Return to order, and Abstraction.

Among the works on display will be Impressionist pieces by Marie Bracquemond, now recognized by the world’s leading international collections; works by Jeanne Selmersheim-Desgrange, a key figure of Neo-Impressionism whose luminous and structured practice fully contributes to the divisionist language; works by Juliette Roche, a central figure of the Dada movement in New York and Paris and closely connected to Cubist and Nabi circles; paintings by Jacqueline Lamba, a major Surrealist artist who decisively contributed to artistic exchanges between France and the United States, particularly in the development of abstraction, as evidenced by a rare Surrealist painting from 1947 presented at TEFAF; and canvases by Madeleine Dinès, reflecting the spirit of modernity from the 1930s to the 1960s in a singularly poetic vein.

This presentation is based on in-depth research conducted in direct collaboration with the estates and successors of the artists. Grounded in a historical, archival, and curatorial approach, the project seeks to reveal rare and sometimes previously unseen works, reconstructing the individual trajectories of these artists in all their complexity and richness.

Building on the gallery’s previous participations in the Focus sector, this project marks a decisive step in Pavec’s mission: to actively contribute to rewriting a more accurate, comprehensive, and truly representative narrative of art, highlighting the diversity of voices that shaped modernity, and thus participating in the creation of an evolving history of art.