Jane Graverol


Jane Graverol, was a Belgian surrealist painter of French extraction.

Life

Jane Graverol was born in Ixelles on 18 December 1905 to Alexandre Graverol and Anne-Marie Lagadec. After a traditional education, she enrolled in the Brussels Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in 1921. She began to exhibit her work in 1927.
During the last twenty years of her life, she was companion. She died in Fontainebleau on 24 April 1984.

Works

Graverol was closely linked to the development of surrealism in Belgium. She would progressively consider her canvases to be "waking, conscious dreams," and her encounters after the war with René Magritte, Louis Scutenaire, and Paul Nougé, then Marcel Mariën, with whom she collaborated on the periodical , merely reconfirmed her in her beliefs. Her painting La Goutte d'eau is a collective portrait of the Belgian surrealists. She offered an original, dreamy version of feminine sensibility in painting, served by a figurative technique that was both precise and cold.

Legacy

In 2018, Graverol was mentioned in a short documentary of Gloria Feman Orenstein by Cheri Gaulke, Gloria's Call.