In 1994 he has been the guest of honour of the party "Music and Painting" organized by the manager of the hotel "La Dague" in Barbizon .
The same year he meet Isabelle de LAJARTE ,research worker at the school of "Hautes Etudes de Sciences Sociales", who was preparing a book entitled "Anciens villages , Nouveaux peintres"(old village and new painters) from Barbizon to Pont-aven. She drew a portrait of Jacques MALVESTIO under the title " The heir or the tradition respected" and chose a picture of him to illustrate the cover of her book.[Published: Edition l'Harmattan, logiques Sociales, 1995]
Dedication of Isabelle de LAJARTE
