Jacqueline Marval was a French painter, lithographer, and sculptor, born 1866, in Grenoble. After separating from her husband in 1891, she earned a living making waistcoats. Marval arrived in Paris to avoid a life that was already written for her. After entering Montparnasse’s art scene, she met Matisse, Marquet, Manguin, Camoin, Rouault and even her future partner, Jules Flandrin.
Marval was an important modernist at the earliest moments of the movement, and she grew into a pioneer of Fauvism.
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Her artworks are the expression of her general action: each brushstroke can be seen as itself in the final result and let the viewer feel the quest of creation as well as the the energy and confidence of the action. With those processes, the artist creates her feminine figures as she’d represent landscapes seen from a moving train, redefining women in her own personal way right before the Modern movement. In that way, not only did she participate in its representation, but she also gave it another perspective, hers.
Marval exhibits from 1901 at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris and enters Ambroise Vollard’s collections, and her works are a part of national collections such as Musée du Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes et Grenoble, as well as the international ones – Milwaukee Art Museum, Ohara museum of Art.
Raphaël Roux dit Buisson, is one of the biggest collectors of Marval’s art, who’s been promoting her work for more than 30 years. – www.dulacfineart.com
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Images courtesy of Raphaël Roux dit Buisson
