Jane Graverol

Jane Graverol (Known as "Jane Graverol")

Surrealist Painter, Co-Founder of Temps Mêlés, Creator of The Drop of Water (La Goutte d'eau)

Born Nov 20, 1905

Ixelles (Brussels), Belgium

Passed Away Apr 24, 1984 Fontainebleau, France

Lifespan 78 years old

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"Painting is the waking dream where desire dissolves the rigid boundaries of reality."

Archival Overview

Pioneering Belgian female Surrealist painter who co-founded the literary revue Temps Mêlés and painted the iconic group portrait La Goutte d'eau (The Drop of Water) commemorating the Belgian Surrealist circle.

Biographical Record

Trained at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, Graverol broke away from conventional figurative painting after discovering Surrealism during World War II. In 1949, she met René Magritte and Louis Scutenaire, becoming a central figure in Belgian surrealist exhibitions.

Her celebrated 1964 masterwork La Goutte d'eau depicted all major figures of the Belgian Surrealist movement (including Magritte, Mesens, Nougé, Mariën, and Scutenaire) sailing inside an enormous suspended water droplet. She later lived with French poet Gaston Puel.

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Fontainebleau Cemetery
Fontainebleau, France

                         GPS: 48.4047, 2.7017                    

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