Alice Rahon

February 14, 2022

French/Mexican surrealist and abstract expressionist.

Alice Rahon (Alice Paalen). Death’s Smile, 1939. Watercolor on paper, 20 X 25.4 cm. Reproduced in Dyn no. 1, 1942.

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Le sourire de la mort
couché sur le chemin
inattendu comme le visage du retour

[The smile of death
lying on the path
unexpected like the face of return]

Translated by Mary Ann Caws in Shapeshifter (New York Review of Books, 2021)

Alice Rahon photographed by Man Ray ca. 1933.