Alice Rahon

Alice Rahon, nee Alice Marie Ivonne Philippot ( born June 8, 1904 in Chenecey- Buillon, † 1987 in Mexico City), was a French writer and surrealist artist.

Biography

Alice Rahon was born in 1904 in the village of Chenecey- Buillon in the French region of Franche -Comté. In 1931 she fell in love with the Austrian painter Wolfgang paals, with whom she was later married, and was inspired by his surrealist style to seal. In 1936, she traveled with the poet Valentine Penrose to India. In the same year she published the poetry collection à même la terre (1936 ), then followed Sablier couché (1939) and animal Noir ( 1941). In 1939 she went with paals and the common friend Eva Sulzer to British Columbia. In the same year, the three artists traveled to Mexico, where they were taken by Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. Here Alice Rahon started painting under the guidance of paals, worked from 1942 to 1944 with at founded by paals and the Peruvian César Moro magazine " Dyn " and in 1944 for the first time out at the Galería de Arte Mexicano. This was followed by exhibitions in New York and Los Angeles. She had love affairs with the writer Elizabeth Smart and with the artist Sonja Sekula. 1947 divorced paals of her, but then lived temporarily with her again. Some of her works are on display at the Museo de Arte Moderno (MAM ).