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Rahon, Alice, 1904-1987

LC control no.nr 97001465
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LC classificationPQ2635.A316
Personal name headingRahon, Alice, 1904-1987
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Variant(s)Paalen, Alice Rahon, 1904-1987
Philppot, Alice Marie Yvonne, 1904-1987
Rahon, Alice (Alice Marie Yvonne), 1904-1987
Rahon, Alice, 1916-1987
Birth date1904
Death date1987
Profession or occupationartist
Special noteEvidence now indicates correct b.d. 1904, not 1916
Found inCinco mujeres, 1995: t.p. (Alice Rahon)
Women artists and the surrealist movement, 1985: p. 242 (Rahon (Paalen), Alice, b. 1916, France; married Wolfgang Paalen)
Alice Rahon, magia de la mirada, 1998: (Alice Rahon) p. 12, etc. (Alice Marie Yvonne Philppot, b. in east of France, June 8, 1904; married Paalen in 1934; lived and died in Mexico; d. in 1987)
Un panorama del arte mexicano, 1990: p. 75, etc. (Rahon, Alice: b. 1916 in France; artist; since 1939, lived in Mexico; d. 1987)
Shapeshifter, 2021: ECIP t.p. (Alice Paalen Rahon) galley (surrealist painter; also wrote poetry while in Paris, with her married name: Paalen)
Gallery Wendi Norris website viewed May 7, 2021: At the North Miami Museum: Alice Rahon Paalen (Alice Paalen Rahon was a shape-shifter par excellence, who casually changed her date and place of birth (1904 in Besanc̀§on, not 1916 in Brittany), her name and nationality, sexual orientation and artistic genre. After publishing three volumes of poems in French as Alice Paalen, she divorced and took her mother's maiden name, Rahon; by now living in Mexico, she turned almost entirely to painting.)