Jacqueline Lamba Breton (November 17, 1910 – July 20, 1993) was a French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

  (one source has "American") painter perhaps best known as the second wife of André Breton

André Breton

André Breton was a French writer and poet. He is known best as the founder of Surrealism. His writings include the first Surrealist Manifesto of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as "pure psychic automatism"....

 and "the subject of many of his poems". With Breton she had a daughter, Aube Elléouët Breton. She and Breton separated in 1943. Lamba later married David Hare

David Hare (artist)

David Hare was an American artist, associated with the Surrealist movement. He is primarily known for his sculpture, though he also worked extensively in photography and painting.-Life and work:...

, an American sculptor.

Lamba participated in the Surrealist Movement between 1934-1947. It is claimed she had a sexual affair with fellow artist Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo de Rivera was a Mexican painter, born in Coyoacán, and perhaps best known for her self-portraits....

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For the last five years of her life, Lamba suffered from Alzheimer's disease.