Régine Raufast Explained
Régine Raufast (died 1946) was a French Surrealist poet and writer, a member of the clandestine group La main à plume during the Nazi occupation of France.[1]
Life
Alongside the poet Laurence Iché and the Czech artist Tita, Raufast was active in La main à plume, writing a poem for its first collective publication.[2]
She had a relationship with Raoul Ubac, and was the model for Ubac's 1939 photograph La Nébuleuse. Her subsequent relationship with Christian Dotremont lasted from April 1941 to March 1943.[3] She was the inspiration for two long poems by Dotremont in 1942, Oleossoonne or the Speculative Moment and The Queen of the Walls.[4]
Raufast committed suicide in 1946. Dotremont wrote a posthumous tribute to her in the Belgian surrealist journal Suractuel.[5]
Work
- 'Image et photographie', in La Conquête du Monde par l'Image, Paris: Éditions de la Main à Plume, 1942.
- 'Der Kubismus und die Gegenwart', in Wort und Tat, No. 2 (September 1946)
Notes and References
- Book: Keith Aspley. Historical Dictionary of Surrealism. 2010. Scarecrow Press. 978-0-8108-5847-3. 405–6. Raufast, Régine.
- Book: Penelope Rosemont. Surrealist Women. 2000. A&C Black. 978-0-567-17128-3. 154.
- Book: Patricia Allmer. Hilde van Gelder. Collective Inventions: Surrealism in Belgium. 2007. Cornell University Press. 978-90-5867-592-7. 223.
- Book: Bertrand Schmitt. Dawn Ades. Krzysztof Fijałkowski. Steven Harris. Georges Sebbag. Michael Richardson. The International Encyclopedia of Surrealism. 2019. Bloomsbury Visual Arts. 978-1-4742-2648-6. 235–8. Christian Dotremont.
- Christian Dotremont, 'Régine Raufast, la reine des murs, est morte', Suractuel, July 1946.
