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  • COMING SOON | Jacqueline Lamba - Painter, MARCH 11 - APRIL 22, 2023

    COMING SOON | Jacqueline Lamba - Painter

    MARCH 11 - APRIL 22, 2023

    Weinstein Gallery begins its 30th-anniversary celebration with the inaugural exhibition, Jacqueline Lamba - Painter, a retrospective featuring over forty paintings and works on paper created from 1927 - 1986. This exhibition marks Lamba's first gallery exhibition in the United States in seventy-four years.

     

    Lamba showed her paintings, drawings, and objects in almost all of the significant surrealism exhibitions of the 1930s. She was also included in Peggy Guggenheim's groundbreaking "31 Women" exhibition at the Art of the Century in 1941, had a solo exhibition at Jimmy Ernst's Norlyst Gallery in 1944, and was featured with her second husband David Hare at the San Francisco Museum of Art (now SFMOMA) in 1946. In 1967, she had a retrospective at the Museum Picasso in Antibes, with Picasso himself initiating the event. Despite six decades of making and exhibiting artwork, Lamba remains less well-known as an artist than her dear friends Dora Maar and Frida Kahlo. Instead, she is primarily remembered in history as the second wife of André Breton and the "scandalous beauty" that inspired him to write Mad Love.

    Lamba refused to be relegated to the role of muse or confined by traditional expectations of wife or mother. Her need to paint was insatiable, and recognition of that need was her only desire. Independent, outspoken, and headstrong, she sometimes got in her own way of what she sought. In her final years, she lived a solitary, monastic life working on her art every day until she could no longer hold a pencil. She once wrote to a friend, "If you hear I am no longer painting, it is because I have died."

    In the current tidal wave of attention on women artists, particularly those involved with Surrealism, Lamba is being reconsidered in the canon for her importance and contributions with inclusion in several recent museum exhibitions, including In Wonderland -The Surrealist Adventures of Artists in Mexico and the United States at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Fantastic Women. Surreal Worlds from Meret Oppenheim to Frida Kahlo at the Schirn Kunsthalle, and currently in Enchanted Modernity: Surrealism and Magic at the Peggy Guggenheim Museum, Venice, and the Museum Barberini, Potsdam. Additionally, the first monograph on the artist, published by the gallery and written by respected scholar Dr. Salomon Grimberg, will be released later this year.
  • Select Past Exhibitions

    • Juanita Guccione, Seeking the Divine

      Juanita Guccione

      Seeking the Divine Mar 2020 View catalogue
    • Charles Green Shaw, Timeless Forms

      Charles Green Shaw

      Timeless Forms Jul 19 – Aug 25, 2018 View catalogue
    • Oskar Fischinger, Raumlichtkunst, c. 1926/2012

      Oskar Fischinger

      Raumlichtkunst, c. 1926/2012 Dec 16, 2017 – Feb 10, 2018
    • Making the Museum of Non-Objective Painting: The Birth of the Guggenheim

      Making the Museum of Non-Objective Painting: The Birth of the Guggenheim

      June 1–30, 2017
    • Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table

      Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table

      Apr 28 – Jun 30, 2016
    • Enrico Donati, Prima Materia

      Enrico Donati

      Prima Materia Feb 20 – Apr 9, 2016 View Catalogue
    • Leonor Fini, Réalisme Irréel

      Leonor Fini

      Réalisme Irréel Sep 26 – Dec 5, 2015
    • Kurt Seligmann, First Message from the Spirit World

      Kurt Seligmann

      First Message from the Spirit World May 9 – Aug 22, 2015 View catalogue
    • Gordon Onslow Ford, Centennial Celebration

      Gordon Onslow Ford

      Centennial Celebration Jan 26 – Feb 23, 2013 View catalogue
    • Action and Chance: A New Look at Drip

      Action and Chance: A New Look at Drip

      Aug 24 - Sep 21, 2013 View catalogue
    • David Hare

      David Hare

      Sept 22 – Oct 25, 2012 View catalogue
    • Surrealism: New Worlds

      Surrealism: New Worlds

      Dec 10, 2011 – Jan 28, 2012 View Catalogue
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