Jacqueline Marval

Vallet was born in Quaix-en-Chartreuse into a family of school teachers.{{cite book |last=Birnbaum |first=Paula J |title=Women Artists in Interwar France: Framing Femininities |publisher=Ashgate |publication-place=Farnham, Surrey, UK |year=2016 |isbn=978-1-138-27546-1 |oclc=1223290241 |page=}}{{page needed |date=March 2024}} She was married in 1866, to a traveling salesperson, Albert Valentin, but separated from her husband in 1891 after the death of her son. She moved to Grenoble and worked as a seamstress sewing waistcoats{{cite web |last=Gersh-Nesic |first=Beth |title=The Marvelous Madame Marval: A Woman Artist Among the Fauves |url-access=subscription |website=Bonjour Paris |date=2020-04-07 |url=https://bonjourparis.com/history/the-marvelous-madame-marval-a-woman-artist-among-the-fauves/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200819075702/https://bonjourparis.com/history/the-marvelous-madame-marval-a-woman-artist-among-the-fauves/ |archive-date=19 August 2020 |url-status=live |access-date=2024-03-15 }} before moving to Paris in 1900.{{cite web |last=Geyer |first=Andrea |author-link=Andrea Geyer|title=REVOLT, THEY SAID. |url=https://www.moma.org/d/pdfs/W1siZiIsIjIwMTUvMTAvMzAvZTd4OWhxOXdtX1JUU18yMDE1QklPU19maW5hbF8wMF9MRC5wZGYiXV0/RTS_2015BIOS_final_00_LD.pdf?sha=3eb2dd08c63357a5 |website=MOMA.org |date=2015-10-16 |access-date=2024-03-15 |page=78}} In 1900 Vallet took on the pseudonym Jacqueline Marval, "Marval" being the composite of her first and last name "MARie VALlet".{{Cite web|title=Biography|url=https://www.jacqueline-marval.com/biography|access-date=2021-03-24|website=Jacqueline Marval|language=en-US}}

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In 1894, Marval met the painter {{ill|François Joseph Girot|fr}} and began living with him in Paris, where she was introduced to Les Nabis group.{{cite encyclopedia |encyclopedia=Benezit Dictionary of Artists |title=Marval, Jacqueline | publisher=Oxford University Press |date=2011-10-31 |doi=10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.b00118008}} Girot introduced her to Jules Flandrin, another painter and a student of Gustave Moreau. The two fell in love, and Marval left Girot to move in with Flandrin in Rue Campagne-Première, in the Montparnasse area. She would live with him as his companion for 20 years.{{cite encyclopedia |last=Petteys |first=Chris |title=MAHVAL, JACQUELINE, (pseudonym for MARIE JOSEPHINE VALLET) |url=https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofwome0000unse/page/480/mode/2up |url-access=registration |via=Internet Archive |encyclopedia=Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900 |publisher=G.K. Hall |publication-place=Boston, Mass. |year=1985 |isbn=978-0-8161-8456-9 |oclc=566008822 |page=480}} As an artist, Marval worked primarily as a painter; however, she also made "lithographs, watercolours, pastels, engravings, tapestry designs and experimented with sculpture."

Vallet's first works were rejected from the 1900 Salon des Indépendants, but she succeeded in having a dozen paintings shown in that exhibition the following year, in 1901. The works rejected in 1900 were bought by the art dealer Ambroise Vollard, who continued to support her work.

Between 1901 and 1905, Marval worked frequently alongside Henri Matisse, Albert Marquet, and Flandrin, and the four influenced each other.{{cite journal |last=Beechey |first=James |title=Jules Flandrin. Oxford |journal=The Burlington Magazine |publisher=The Burlington Magazine Publications Ltd. |volume=143 |issue=1180 |year=2001 |issn=0007-6287 |jstor=889111 |pages=440–441 |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/889111 |access-date=2024-03-15}}

In 1902, several of her paintings were displayed alongside works by Flandrin, Albert Marquet, and Henri Matisse in a gallery in Rue Victor-Massé curated by Berthe Weill, who was particularly interested in promoting the works of female artists living in Paris. Marval also exhibited in the first Salon d'Automne, in 1902, where she showed her large scale painting The Odalisques.

In 1913, Marval was chosen by a jury made up of Gabriel Astruc, the sculptor Antoine Bourdelle, and the painters Maurice Denis and Édouard Vuillard to decorate the foyer of the new Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. She created a series of twelve paintings on the theme of Daphnis and Chloe.{{Cite book|last=Roussier|first=François|url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/758447941|title=Jacqueline Marval 1866-1932|publisher=Thalia édition|year=2008|isbn=978-2-35278-040-3|pages=140–141|oclc=758447941}} The series was based on the Ballets Russes' production of Daphnis et Chloë , performed the year prior.{{Cite book |last=Bellow |first=Juliet |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/855360857 |title=Modernism on stage : the Ballets Russes and the Parisian avant-garde |date=2012 |publisher=Ashgate |isbn=978-1-4094-0911-3 |location=Farnham, Surrey |oclc=855360857}}

Also in 1913, Marval protested against the removal from the Salon d'Automne of Kees van Dongen's The Spanish Shawl, and became friends with Van Dongen, setting up her studio near his. Marval and Flandrin moved into 40 rue Denfert Rochereau, which was next door to Van Dongen in 1914. She attended his famous costumed ball in 1914.

Marval's works began to be recognized across Europe and beyond; she exhibited in Barcelona, Liège, Venice, Zurich, Budapest, and Kyoto.

Beginning in 1923, Marval was active in favor of the creation of modern art museums in Paris and Grenoble. Towards the end of her life she fell into poverty. Marval died of cancer at the Hôpital Bichât in Paris in 1932. After her death, her works were held in the Galerie Druet before it was closed in 1938 and they were sold. Her painting Portrait of Dolly Davis, 1925 is in the collection of the Milwaukee Art Museum.{{cite web |title=Portrait of Dolly Davis |website=Milwaukee Art Museum |date=2022-04-08 |url=https://collection.mam.org/details.php?id=9610 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230316182828/https://collection.mam.org/details.php?id=9610 |archive-date=16 March 2023 |url-status=live |access-date=2024-03-15 }} The MAM link may not work in Firefox; use archive link instead.

Critics gave Marval high praise during her career. In a 1911 issue of The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, for example, it was written that at an exhibition at the Druet Gallery, "The paintings of Madame Marval were among the most striking..."{{cite journal |last=D. |first=R. E. |title=Art in France |journal=The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs |publisher=The Burlington Magazine Publications Ltd. |volume=19 |issue=97 |date=April 1911 |issn=0951-0788 |jstor=858653 |pages=61–62 |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/858653 |access-date=2024-03-15}} Apollinaire, aside from his compliments to Les Odalisques, more generally makes comments on her work that refer to it as exciting, strong, and worthy of recognition.{{cite book |last=Apollinaire |first=Guillaume |author-link=Guillaume Apollinaire |editor-last=Breunig |editor-first=LeRoy C. |translator-last=Suleiman |translator-first=Susan Rubin |translator-link=Susan Rubin Suleiman |chapter=Art News: Women Painters |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/apollinaireonart00apol/page/n275/mode/2up |chapter-url-access=registration |via=Internet Archive |title=Apollinaire on art: essays and reviews, 1902-1918 |url=https://archive.org/details/apollinaireonart00apol |url-access=registration |publisher=Viking Press |publication-place=New York |year=1972 |isbn=978-0-670-12960-7 |oclc=286117 |page=[https://archive.org/details/apollinaireonart00apol/page/228/mode/2u 229]}} Some critics referred to her as a Fauve, a reflection of her choice of palette, which was heavily influenced by Fauve and Impressionist painters who came before her. According to Lucien Manissieux, a student of Flandrin, "Marquet, Flandrin, Matisse all awaited each work she produced with curiosity and emotion" and there is some evidence that her male peers borrowed from her "brilliant colour and formal economy of her painting."

During her lifetime, Marval refused to exhibit in all-female exhibitions; yet, after her death, her career and work was celebrated in one. The Société des Femmes Artistes Modernes (FAM) was a women artists' collective in Paris. FAM was headed by Marie-Anne Camax-Zoegger (1887-1952), "a bourgeois French Catholic woman." They put on a retrospective of Marval's work in 1933 as part of their annual exhibition. Marval, who did not identify as a feminist, was appropriated by FAM as one and has since been celebrated as living a feminist life. Since her work was figural in nature, it fit well within the focus of FAM, which aimed to "organize annual exhibitions that featured the work of female artists from different countries and stylistic movements'."{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}

Since her death, Marval's work has been exhibited many times, most often in France. A full list of exhibitions has been compiled on the website [https://www.jacqueline-marval.com/exhibitions-2 jacqueline-marval.com] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210429181045/https://www.jacqueline-marval.com/exhibitions-2 |date=29 April 2021 }}. In 2020-21, she was included in the exhibition Valadon et ses contemporaines at the Musée des beaux-arts de limoges, which was also on view at the Monstaère Royal de Brou from 13 March 2021 – 27 June 2021.{{Cite web|title=Exhibitions|url=https://www.jacqueline-marval.com/exhibitions-2|access-date=2021-03-24|website=Jacqueline Marval|language=en-US|archive-date=29 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210429181045/https://www.jacqueline-marval.com/exhibitions-2|url-status=dead}}

The Papillon Gallery wrote that "Marval's paintings are provocative and edgy, challenging and unusual, she was an important modernist at the earliest moments of the movement."{{cite web |title=Jacqueline Marval |website=Papillon Gallery |url=http://www.papillongallery.com/sold/jacqueline_marval.html |access-date=2024-03-15}}

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|File:"Autoportrait" de Jacqueline Marval, vers 1900.jpg

|Self-portrait (1900)

|alt1=Self-portrait of the artist

|File:L'Odalisque au guépard.jpg

| L'Odalisque au guépard (1900)

|alt2=Painting of a nude woman reaching out to pet a leopard. A parrot is perched on the left.

|File:Les coquettes - Jacqueline Marval.jpg

|Les Coquettes (1903), oil on canvas, Ancienne Collection Ambroise Vollard

|alt3="Les Coquettes" by the artist Jacquline Marval. Image of three well dressed women, two fully grown and one young (in green dress). A small black cat plays on the seated lap of one in the center of the composition, dangling a necklace. The young girl in green gazes wistfully toward the viewer.

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|Les trois roses (1911)

|alt4="Les Coquettes" by the artist Jacquline Marval. Image of three nude women, two wearing hats, laying on a pink blanket with trees behind them.

|File:Marval Portrait de femme 1912.jpg

|Portrait de femme (1912)

|alt5=Portrait of a woman

|File:Jacqueline marval la bise dautomne013616).jpg

|La bise d'automne (1914)

|alt6=Nude woman with a bob haircut standing balanced on her let leg before flowering trees.

|File:Jacqueline Marval The Bohemian 1921.jpg

|The Bohemian (1921)

|alt7=Image of the artist Jacqueline Marval's painting "The Bohemian" from 1921. A nude woman with long white feathers attached to a headband lays on pillows or blankets in a cluttered salon next to a black cat in the foreground on a pink pillow.

|File:Jacqueline Marval - La grande plage à Biarritz.jpg

|La grande plage à Biarritz (1923)

|alt8=Five women in sundresses, three with parasols, a woman in a bathing suit, and eight children in hats and bathing suits are by a fence overlooking a crowded beach, the sea, and a white lighthouse in the distance.

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• {{cite book |last=Gonnard |first=Catherine |author-link=Catherine Gonnard |last2=Lebovici |first2=Élisabeth |author2-link=Élisabeth Lebovici |title=femmes artistes: artistes femmes: Paris, de 1800 à nos jours |trans-title=women artists: artist women: Paris, from 1800 to today |publisher=Éditions Hazan |publication-place=Paris |year=2007 |isbn=978-2-7541-0206-3 |oclc=501418759 |language=fr |pages=67–68}}
• {{cite book |last=Roussier |first=François |title=Jacqueline Marval: 1866-1932 |publisher=Thalia Édition |publication-place=Paris |year=2008 |orig-year=1987 |isbn=978-2-35278-040-3 |oclc=1423856150 |language=fr}}
• {{cite book |last=Wantellet |first=Maurice |title=Le Dauphiné et les peintres: une source d'inspiration |trans-title=The Dauphiné and the painters: a source of inspiration |publisher=Musée dauphinois |publication-place=Grenoble, Veurey, FR |year=2003 |orig-year=1987 |isbn=978-2-911739-49-1 |oclc=417156051 |language=fr}}
• {{cite book |last=Wantellet |first=Maurice |title=Deux siècles, et plus, de peinture dauphinoise |trans-title=Two centuries and more of Dauphinoise painting |publisher=Selbstverlag |publication-place=Grenoble |year=1987 |isbn=978-2-9502223-0-5 |id={{OCLC|20130906|1254801934}} |language=fr |page=269}}

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• {{cite web |last=Andry-Farcy|authorlink=Andry-Farcy |title=Jacqueline Marval: la vie d'une grande artiste |trans-title=Jacqueline Marval: the life of a great artist |language=fr |website=jacqueline-marval.com |date=1932 |url=http://www.jacqueline-marval.com/anglais/gb_andry-farcy.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090107021300/http://www.jacqueline-marval.com/anglais/gb_andry-farcy.htm |archive-date=2009-01-07 |url-status=dead}}
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