Jacqueline Marval
An exuberant, abundant bouquet of flowers bursting with color by the painter Jacqueline Marval.
As usual, the artist gives free rein to her imagination with an extraordinary composition.
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right
Dimensions: 97 x 82 cm
With frame: 117 x 102 cm
Price: upon request
“One of the most remarkable artists of our time.”
Guillaume Apollinaire, *L’Intransigeant*, February 25, 1912
Jacqueline Marval, an independent and daring female painter.
Jacqueline Marval defies conventions and asserts her independence. She dazzles her peers with her innovative and free-spirited work. A friend of Matisse and Marquet, she does not align herself with any artistic movement. The cream of Parisian society was a regular visitor to her studio. Her works exude a sense of freedom and spontaneity.
Jacqueline Marval, an innate sense of color.
With an innate sense of color, Marval paints dazzling bouquets of flowers in vibrant hues, creating a captivating visual symphony.
Here, pastel shades of yellow, pink, and white are accented by deep purple roses and warm oranges.
The flowers stand out against a neutral blue-gray background applied with broad, creamy strokes, revealing a mastery of texture.
Biography
Jacqueline Marval was a painter active in the late 19th century and early 20th century. Born in 1866 to a family of schoolteachers near Grenoble, she did not take up painting until later in life.
A humble seamstress by trade, she took up painting at the urging of her partner, the painter Jules Flandrin, a student of Gustave Moreau. He encouraged her talent as an observer and colorist.
She moved to Paris in 1895, settling in Montparnasse, at the heart of the artistic scene at the turn of the century. There she met Matisse, Guérin, Laurencin, Camin, Rouault, Marquet, and others.
The artist opens the way to dreams and softness in her poetic compositions, like dreamlike projections of the mind.
Her paintings were rejected by the Salon of 1900; she did not exhibit there until the following year. As early as 1901, her painting *Les Odalisques*, exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants, caught the eye of Ambroise Vollard, who purchased several of her works.
At that time, genius collectors and gallery owners Berthe Weill, Ambroise Vollard and Eugène Druet bought and exhibited his work.
In February 1902, Jacqueline Marval exhibited alongside Matisse, Marquet, and her partner Flandrin at Berthe Weill’s gallery at 25 rue Victor Massé. From then on, her career took off, and she exhibited internationally—in Europe, the United States, and Asia.
Marval became famous not only in Europe, but also in the United States and Japan.
The spontaneous and generous art of the artist is praised and recognized by her peers. During a visit to the studio of the painter Lucien Mainssieux, Matisse was astonished by the power of the Odalisques, preserved in the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Grenoble. In a 1905 correspondence with the artist, Marquet and Manguin pay “the tribute of good taste to genius”.
The economic crises chained the galleries, reduced to exhibiting the few painters that the first war did not take away in addition to the new artists of the beginning of the century. The artist died in poverty and indifference, in the same room of the Bichat hospital as Paul Verlaine. Her paintings were dispersed after the closure of the Druet Gallery in 1938.
Today, art historians and collectors are seeing a renewed interest in this free-spirited artist from the turn of the centuries. Her poetic and colorful universe invites itself in the interiors of our contemporaries as well as in museums such as the Petit Palais in Paris and provincial museums such as the museum of Grenoble.
Bibliography
; • François Roussier, Jacqueline Marval: 1866–1932, Paris, Thalia Édition, 2008 (reprinted 1987), 407 pages
Museums
In France
• Paris, the Petit Palais
• Nantes Museum of Fine Arts
• Grenoble Museum of Fine Arts (including a portrait of the artist by Jules Hippolyte Flandrin)
• Castres, Goya Museum
• Voiron, Mainssieux Museum
• Villefranche-sur-Saône, Paul Dini Museum
Source
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqueline_Marval
https://www.jacqueline-marval.com
