Jane Graverol

About Jane Graverol

Jane Graverol was a Belgian surrealist painter born in 1905 in Ixelles, Belgium. She grew up with her father, Alexandre Graverol, a writer and symbolist painter, and studied at the Académie des Beaux Arts in Brussels. 

From the end of the 1930s onwards, her painting came closer to the precepts of the Surrealist movement, which she did not join until 1940. 
In 1936, she met E.L.T. Mesens in Paris. 
In 1949, Graverol met the founding members of Belgian Surrealism, Louis Scutenaire, Camille Goemans and Marcel Lecomte. Later, Jane Graverol won the support of René Magritte, who organised an exhibition for her in 1950, demonstrating his sincere friendship.
In 1952, Jane Graverol and André Blavier founded the literary review "Temps mêlés". 
The following year, the magazine devoted a booklet to the Belgian Surrealists, under the title "Jane Graverol". 
In 1953, Jane Graverol met Marcel Mariën, with whom she was to live for ten years. 
Her love affair with Marien further strengthened her involvement in the group. In 1954, the couple created a magazine with the deliberately provocative title "Les 
lèvres nues". 
Jane Graverol played an active part in the making of Marcel Mariën's film "L'Imitation du Cinéma" (1959), an erotic and anti-clerical work which caused a scandal as soon as it was released and was banned in France. 
In 1960, the artist met André Breton and then Marcel Duchamp in New York. 

Born in Ixelles in 1905, passed away in 1984.