Juliette Roche

​Juliette Roche was born in Paris in 1884 in a bourgeois, liberal and cultured milieu. Her father was a journalist, left-wing politician and deputy. Very early introduced to art in the family, she took courses and at the same time integrated the Parisian artistic milieu of the early twentieth century. Under a pseudonym, she exhibited for the first time and published a collection of poems in 1907 and the following year participated in the Salon des Indépendants. She enrolled at the Ranson Academy where she learned the style of the Nabis, travelled a lot, integrated into the Parisian artistic life. After her first solo exhibition at the Galerie Bernheim-Jeune in 1914, she met the painter Albert Gleizes, whom she married in 1915. The couple moved to New York, then Spain, then returned to New York until the end of the war. Back in France in the 1920s, she participated in the Dada movement she had discovered in New York with Marcel Duchamp. She continues to exhibit and publish collections of poetry. In 1923, heiress of her father, she considered creating with her husband a community of artists. In 1926, the couple bought an agricultural property in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence which they put under management then the following year rented Moly-Sabata, an estate in Sablons (Isère) to make it a community residence both agricultural and artistic, building its organization around natural cycles in harmony with nature, already resolutely ecological. They managed to buy Moly-Sabata just before the Second World War. The war years will take place in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence where they integrate into local life. Having become a widow in 1953, Juliette Roche closed her husband’s studio in Paris and repatriated her works, some of which were donated to the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon.