19 Facts About Jacqueline Lamba

Jacqueline Lamba was a French painter and surrealist artist.

Jacqueline Lamba's mother was a talented and well-read woman who had once intended entering medical school, but instead was persuaded into the common woman's role as a housewife.

Jacqueline Lamba always spoke highly of her father as well, whom she never had the chance to get to know very well.

Jacqueline Lamba then began to frequent the cafe and, on 29 May 1934, met Breton, whom she would meet for the second time after one of her performances as a nude underwater dancer at the Coliseum on rue Rochechouart.

Jacqueline Lamba would continue to appear frequently in the poetry of Breton throughout the rest of their relationship.

Jacqueline Lamba asks about their other friends, Benjamin Peret and Remedios Varo, and says that they are living on a tiny fisherman's shack "of great impoverished beauty" on the beach of Martigues.

Jacqueline Lamba found herself often overshadowed by her male counterpart.

On September 6,1936, Jacqueline Lamba left her home in Paris for Ajaccio, France leaving Breton and their eight-month old daughter.

Jacqueline Lamba left at other points in their marriage as well but always returned to work on her and Bretons relationship.

Jacqueline Lamba participated in the Surrealist Movement between 1934 and 1947.

In 1943, Jacqueline Lamba was included in Peggy Guggenheim's show Exhibition by 31 Women at the Art of This Century gallery in New York.

Kahlo captured her friends trepidation in the 1943 painting The Bride Frightened at the Seeing Life Opened - Jacqueline Lamba depicted as a tiny doll among larger, flayed-open fruit echoing the shapes of male and female genitalia.

Jacqueline Lamba recalls with acrimony about "years spent with no money, surrounded by a priceless collection".

Jacqueline Lamba's had her first one-woman show in New York City at the Norlyst Gallery in April 1944.

Unlike Andre Breton, who was considered to be tone deaf, Jacqueline Lamba was able to speak fluent English.

Jacqueline Lamba would leave Andre Breton for David Hare in 1942 and move to Roxbury, Connecticut with him.

In 1955 Jacqueline Lamba divorced Hare and returned to Paris.

Toward the end of her life, Jacqueline Lamba suffered a stroke.

Jacqueline Lamba eventually asked her daughter and son to relocate her to the countryside in Rochecorbon where she spent her final years.