Jacqueline Nesti Joseph

At a very young age Joseph moved to Paris to finish her studies. Thanks to the teachings of Claude Perset and a pupil of Georges Braque she settled in France and at the home of the artist Manfredo Borsi meeting André Verdet and the poet Jacques Prévert and artists such as Picasso, Chagall, and Magnelli. In 1955 she travelled to Mexico and was introduced to Diego Rivera, who became her mentor and friend. Her return to Haiti inspired her intense work of painting where her homeland and surrounding landscapes are depicted in her work.

Returning to Europe she met and married Victor Nesti and the couple became inseparable until his death in 2008. Victor Nesti was born in Soho, London and was an artist in his own right. After working as a chef at the Hotel Carlton, he studied at the academy of Belle Arti under Ottone Rosai. He had a number of personal exhibitions and listed viewings in galleries and museums worldwide.

Jacqueline Joseph made Pisa her home in 1972 and the couple continued to pursue their artistic talents – Jacqueline through her memories of thematic Haitian topics including market scenes, Haiti carnival, exotic flowers etc. and her husband Victor in his interpretation of geometric designs and in describing culinary treats through art. As a result of the latter, a graphical recipe book was produced in 2003 called “A tavola… con I Pisani più schietti” supported by the Province of Pisa and created by Alberto Marianelli, Alessandro Moretto and Valeria Caldelli.

Pietro Barsi, Furio Bartorelli, Marziano Bernardi, Paolo Bernardini, Piero Studiati Berni, Gerald Bloncourt, Vittorio Bottini, Dino Buzzati, Gaetana Cali, Giorgio Casini, Dino Carlesi, Luigi Carluccio, Remi De Cnodder, Lella Durando, Albino Galvano, Gabriele Mandel, George Mary, Adele Menzio, Nicola Micieli, Marie-Jose Nadal-Gardere, Romolo Nazzaro, Giuseppe Pelloni, Orazio Pettinelli, Francesco Prestipino, Jacques Prévert, Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti, Aurelio Ragionieri, Diego Rivera, Lorenzo Scateni, Giuseppina Scotti Porcelli, Luigi Servolini, Grazia A. Tadolini, Almerico Tomaselli, Silvia Taricco, Andrè Verdet.

Diego Rivera: “To Jacqueline Joseph, a beautiful, talented artist, who I had the pleasure to get to know and watch her at work. I would love to have been able to keep her here with me and watch her grow like a very delicate and pretty stalk who blossoms into a stunning, rare flower”

Dino Buzzati: “The majority of Jacqueline's paintings depict scenes and figures of Haiti, groups of women at the market and multitudes of flowers. She captures an illuminating glow of her subjects demonstrated in her best canvases”

1962 El Rancho, Port-au-Prince (Haiti)
1965 Venezia Biennale (Italy)
1967 Guggenheim New York - box # 643911, Nesti, Jacqueline Joseph (US) 1970 Galerie Karrer, Tübingen (Germany)
1971 Friends of UNESCO Clubs, Pisa (Italy)
1971 Fondazione Europea, Milan (Italy)
1971 Centre of International Art, Genova (Italy)
1972 Art and Culture Centre, Pisa (Italy)
1972 Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze (Italy)
1972 Biennale Arte Sacra Savona, Turin (Italy)- Silver Cup Prize Academic Gallery
1972-1973-1974 Chieri, Turin (Italy)
1973 Centre Culturel Franco-Italien, Turin (Italy)
1973 International Exhibition of Figurative Art, Asti (Italy)- Gold Medal
1974 Bottega d’Arte S. Marco, Porto S. Stefano, Grosseto (Italy)
1975 Galerie Burdeke, Zurich (Switzerland)
1975 Regional Art Exhibition, Lazio (Italy) 2nd Prize
1975 Centre culturel Francais, Milan (Italy)
1976 Galleria Paris, Treviso (Italy)
1977 Daniel Blaise Thorens Fine Art Gallery, Basel (Switzerland)
1982 Galerie SBG, Basel, (Switzerland)
1984 Die Stube Galerie, Tübingen (Germany)
1986 Galerie Beletage, Munich (Germany)
1990 Centre Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne (Switzerland)
1990 Keramos, Genova (Italy)- Gold Medal

Permanent exhibitions in Galleries in Germany, Switzerland and Italy.
Present in catalogues such as Bolaffi and Comanducci

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Archives
The Soprintendenza of the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art
Webster University
African American Visual Arts Database