Alice Rahon was born today, June 8, in France. She began her art career as a poet, but evolved from Surrealism poetry to Surrealistic painting after moving to Mexico in her 30's. At age 3, she was in a serious accident, injuring her hip and resulted in being confined to bed and her home, for a long period of time. Her isolation was further continued at age 12 when she broke her leg. Her fragile physical state made her sympathetic to Frida Kahlo, with whom she became friends when she and her husband Wolfgang Paalen traveled to Mexico in the early 40's.
After she and Paalen divorced in 1947, she took the name Rahon. She married Canadian Edward Fitzgerald and the two worked on a film together, featuring a marionette. It was never to be a success, however, dragging on for years.
Sadly Rahon suffered an injury to her spine when she fell down a staircase and lived the rest of her life in virtual seclusion, painting only rarely.
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