 Her father, José Lamba, died in an automobile accident in 1914, when Lamba was three years old, and her mother, Jane Pinon, died of tuberculosis in 1927.Jacqueline Lamba's love for art began as a little girl growing up in Paris and frequently visiting the Louvre with her mother and sister (Grimberg, p5).At the Palais Galliera, she saw exhibitions of decorative arts, printed fabrics, and painted paper.