La Dame de Coeur, 1980
Aube Elleouét Breton (B. 1935)
'La Dame de Coeur' (1980) is a collage by Aube Elléouët-Breton, a French artist renowned for her imaginative surrealist assemblages and for being the daughter of André Breton and Jacqueline Lamba. Born in Paris in 1935, she emerged as one of the significant second-generation figures associated with Surrealism.
From the 1970s onward, Elléouët-Breton primarily worked in collage on paper, assembling found imagery into layered, dreamlike compositions. Her imagery frequently includes references to playing cards, games of chance, the sea, mythology, celestial forms, and feminine figures —motifs closely associated with Surrealism, while forming a distinctive personal visual language. The title 'La Dame de Coeur' ("The Queen of Hearts") resonates with Surrealist fascination with symbolism, chance, and the poetic associations of card imagery. The Queen of Hearts can suggest love, femininity, intuition, fate, and the archetypal muse.
Aube Elleouét Breton (B. 1935)
Aube Elléouët-Breton was born in Paris, December 20, 1935. Her mother was Jacqueline Lamba, a painter and her father, André Breton, the writer and founder of Surrealism. In 1943 she stayed for one year with her mother at Frida Kahlo's house in Mexico. Since the early 1970s, Aube Elléouët-Breton devoted more and more time to the art of collage, exhibiting them in France and internationally. Her work is included in private and museum collections, including the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris among others. Even though Aube's collages encompass a surrealist spirit, she developed her own distinct artistic language, often addressing issues such as ecology and feminism in her work.
