Untitled

1943

Jacqueline Lamba
France, 1910-1993

Status: On View, Gallery 125
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Jacqueline Lamba
Title: Untitled
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1943
Medium: Graphite and colored pencil on tan wove paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed (possibly by Eleanor Lust, co-owner of Norlyst Gallery) verso, lower center, in graphite: "Jacqueline Breton 1943"
Dimensions: 48 × 37 cm (18 15/16 × 14 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Margaret Fisher Endowment Fund
Reference Number: 2023.2843

Whitney Chadwick, Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement (London: Thames and Hudson, 1985), p. 157, fig. 144.

New York, Norlyst Gallery, Jacqueline Lamba, April 1944.
Paris, Center Pompidou, La Révolution surréaliste, 2002, pp. 320 (ill.) and 437.
San Francisco, Weinstein Gallery, Jacqueline Lamba: Painter, Mar. 11–Apr. 22, 2023, p. 33 (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Beyond Form: Abstraction at Midcentury”, June 27 - October 19, 2026.

Private collector; sold to Geneviève and Jean-Paul Kahn (c. 1931–2018), Paris; sold, Pierre Berge & Associés, Brussels, Dec. 2021, lot 194, to Weinstein Gallery, San Francisco [all provenance is according to an email from Kendy Genovese, of Weinstein Gallery, Dec. 19, 2022]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2023.

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