1910 b. Nov 17th in Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, Paris. 1912 joins her father, an agricultural engineer working in Cairo, Egypt. 1914 death of father; return to France. French Painter Model and Muse Studied decorative arts. Nicknamed Bastille Day ==1930's== ==1940's== ==1950's==
1926 Enters School of the Union of Decorative Arts in Paris. Meets Dora Maar a fellow student. 1927 Self Portrait ~>. death of her mother. Starts reading works of Andre Breton. 1928 Produced photographs; her plates were published in the first issue of the Journal Du Cinea. ==1930's== 1934 Underwater photograph
Photographed by Rogi Andre. She was making a living as a nude underwater dancer at the Colieum music hall in Montmartre. 1934 Meets and marries Andre Breton, his second wife. He dedicates L'Amour fou and the book of poems L'air de l'eau to her. Alberto Giacometti is the bride's witness, Paul Eluard the best man, and Man Ray is the photographer. She was the subject of numerous portraits by Surrealist greats Pablo Picasso, Man Ray, Wifredo Lam, and Andre Masson. 1935 Photograph -> of the Bretons by Claude Cahun. Travels to Tenerife with Andre Breton and Benjamin Peret for Exposicion Surrealista organized by Gaceta de arte with Eduardo Westerdahl and Oscar Dominguez. Shows two paintings. (uncredited). Dec 20th. b. of daughter Aube. Dora Maar and Pablo Picasso were the first visitors. Photograph ~> - Dora Maar. 1937 Breton's muse for L'Amour Fou. 1938 January; exhibits in Exposition Internationale du Surrealisme? at the Galerie Beaux-Arts, Paris; Organizers Andre Breton, Marcel Duchamp Cadavre Exquis with Yves Tanguy and Breton. See ->. April: Goes to Mexico with Breton; Leaving Aube with Andre Masson and his wife Rose. There she meets Diego Rivera, and Leon Trotsky ->, and becomes close friends with Frida Kahlo. Aug. The Bretons return to France. 1939 Spends the summer with Aube first at Claude Cahun`s in Jersey, then joining Breton, Yves Tanguy, Roberto Matta, Esteban Frances, Gordon Onslow Ford and Kay Sage in the Castle of Chemillieu in the Ain district. (Map ~>). When Breton is mobilized she is with Aube in Antibes with Dora Maar and Pablo Picasso, and then with Marie Cuttoli -> ==1940's== 1940 Beginning of the year Jacqueline and Aube go to Royan (Map ~> with Dora Maar and Pablo Picasso. When Breton is demobilized they join him at the home of Pierre Mabille and yhen move into an abandoned house on the beach in Martigues. Sept. move into Villa Air-Bel in Marseille, a house rented by Varian Fry. They meet up with Benjamin Peret, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Jacques Herold, Andre Masson, and Wifredo Lam. During the long wait for the visas they entertain themselves with collective games organised by Breton. In the Jeu de Marseille (Marseille Card Game), a new surrealist game of Tarot, Jacqueline draws the wheel, the revolution ace, Baudelaire and the genius of Love. See (1) ->; and (II) ->. Other cards were created by Andre Breton, Oscar Dominguez, Victor Brauner, Max Ernst, Jacques Herold, Wifredo Lam, Andre Masson, and (Frederic Delanglade not used). 1941 With Breton and Aube leave France by ship financed by Peggy Guggenheim and with the assistance of Varian Fry and CAS. Travel with Wifredo Lam, Helena Holzer, Victor Serge, and his son Vlady Serge. Also on board was Claude Levi Strauss ~>. On arrival in Martinique they were placed in an internment camp for a week. Meet Aime Cesaire. May 16th. left Martinique with the Massons, Lam and Holzer for the Dominican Republic where they visited the Spanish surrealist painter, poet, and essayist Eugenio Granell. June 12th departed for New York. She contributes to four issues of VVV. 1942 meets David Hare cousin of Kay Sage. He had offered to sponsor the family in America. Friends with Sonja Sekula. Exhibits at ''Objects - Drawings - Photographs - Collages, 1910 - 1942 at Peggy Guggenheim's Art of this Century Gallery In Spite of Everything, Spring ~>. 1943 Jan; Shows in Exhibition by 31 Women at Peggy Guggenheim's Art of this Century, New York. Confidence in her painting undermined by Roberto Matta and she destroyed many of her paintings. Separated from Breton. Painted Behind the Sun ~> Spring : Stays in Mexico with Frida Kahlo for 7 months. Frida paints The Bride Frightened at Seeing Life Opened ~>. Visits Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo and Benjamin Peret, Esteban Frances, Alice Rahon and Wolfgang Paalen. David Hare joins them to wards the end of her stay. 1944 April: First one-woman exhibition at the Norlyst Gallery, New York. 1945 Officially divorced. 1946 m. David Hare. Andre Breton destroys all her work in his possession. Jacqueline and david share an exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. 1947 Returns to France. Reunion with Dora Maar in Menerbes, (Map ~>) and with Pablo Picasso in Antibes and Vallauris. Provides original artwork for the catalogue of Le Surrealisme en 1947 or Please Touch at Galerie Maeght, Paris. 1948 Son Merlin born. Breaks with Surrealism. 1949 Journeys to Mid-West. ==1950's== 1950 Splits with David Hare. 1955 Returns to Paris. 1957 Summer in Gordes, with Andre Lhote. 1978? Works closely with Franklin Rosemont who publishes What is surrealism? : Selected writings / Andre Breton. 1993? July 20th. d. Rochecorbon, Indre-et-Loire. See wiki (Fr.) -> and bio ->. See Info -> See Photo - bio ~>. See Timeline
