Jacqueline B. was born into a complex family context. Initially entrusted to her father’s employees, she attended school until the age of five. Following her father’s remarriage, she returned to the family home, where she was raised by a caring stepmother.
Of fragile constitution, thin and nervous, she encountered significant difficulties at school and was successively placed in two institutions run by nuns. At the age of twenty-three, she could barely read or write; her health remained fragile and her behavior unstable.
Encouraged by her stepmother, she turned to drawing—faces and silhouettes, distorted bodies in varied postures—an activity that became her only true passion. Since 1964, she has been living in a retirement home near Grasse.
JACQUELINE B
