CELLES QUI AVANCENT : JACQUELINE LAMBA | DORA MAAR

To mark the centenary of Surrealism, Galerie Pauline Pavec and Galerie Boquet are delighted to present a joint exhibition in their two venues, highlighting the careers of two women artists whose friendship spanned the 20th century: Jacqueline Lamba and Dora Maar.

Illustrated by numerous archives and photographs, the exhibition will showcase works from the 1930s to the 1970s, from surrealism to abstraction, including some rare and unseen pieces by both artists, such as a unique fold-out notebook by Dora Maar featuring a series of portraits of Jacqueline Lamba, major canvases by Lamba and ink landscapes by both artists, with strong formal links.

Jacqueline Lamba and Dora Maar met in 1926 at the Union Centrale des Arts Décoratifs, and continued to be close friends 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 catalog with texts by the artists' two biographers Victoria Combalia for Dora Maar - historian, art critic, professor at Barcelona University, PhD in Art History and exhibition curator - and Alba Romano-Pace for Jacqueline Lamba - art historian, curator and professor at the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts of Turin - this exhibition will highlight the important role played by these two women artists who, far more than witnesses, are in fact actors whose researchs reveal the major changes of the arts during the twentieth-century.