Alice Rahon Alice Rahon
ALICE RAHON ALICE RAHON Born 1904 Chenecey-Buillon, France Died 1987 Mexico City, Mexico Alice Rahon, photograph by Walter Reuter, n/d “In earliest times painting was magical; it was the key to the invisible. In those days the value of a work lay in its powers of conjuration, a power that talent alone could not achieve. Like the shaman, the sibyl, and the wizard, the painter had to make himself humble, so that he could share in the manifestation of spirits and forms.” Alice Rahon, 1951 Exhibition catalogue, Willard Gallery, New York, 1951 Le femme qui neige, 1945 Oil and sand on canvas board 9 7/8 x 7 7/8 inches (25.1 x 20 cm) $95,000 Untitled, 1960 Oil and sand on canvas board 18 x 24 inches (45.7 x 61 cm) $175,000 A Flower for Angela (A Tribute to Angela Davis), c. 1975 Mixed media on canvas 21 5/8 x 13 3/4 inches (55 x 35 cm) $95,000 Androgyne, 1946 Wire marionette 26 x 11 x 1 inches (66 x 28 x 2.5 cm) $125,000 Byblos, 1963 Oil on canvas 27 1/2 x 67 inches (69.9 x 170.2 cm $400,000 Alice Rahon: Poetic Invocations, installation view, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Miami, FL, November 26, 2019 – March 29, 2020, photography: Daniel Bock Pictured: Androgyne and Byblos Untitled, n/d Assemblage with painted wood, olive snail shells, natural fibers, feathers, sand, beads, and iron alloy tacks 22 x 4 x 11 1/2 inches (55.9 x 10.2 x 29.2 cm) $65,000 Thunderbird, 1946 Oil on canvas 12 5/8 x 39 inches (32.1 x 99.1 cm) $350,000 Alice Rahon: Poetic Invocations, installation view, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Miami, FL, November
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