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Laying around, sick as a dog on this glorious Sunday, taking a break from reading to watch Rara Avis, the 1985 documentary short on the life and work of Bridget Bate Tichenor, the black swan of surrealist painters. What a life this woman had! #bridgetbatetichenor #french #british #mexican #painter #fashioneditor #surrealism #magicrealism #deathanniversary #practicedying https://www.instagram.com/p/B32X-mqBZ4P/?igshid=1iybexdxwg1gv

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FASHIONISTE-ARTISTE-SURREALISTE

Bridget Bate Tichenor surrealist artist and favourite of author Anais Nin was a European descended aristocrat with family links throughout the art world.

She modelled for Man Ray, was a fashion editor at Vogue in New York, shared an apartment with Peggy Guggenheim and left it all behind to reinvent herself as an artist in Mexico.

Mexico was at that time a haven for artists and creatives who moved there and created a community based on freedom, nature and spirit.

Tichenors work was a fusion of spiritual expression influenced by and reflecting italian renaissance, mesamerican culture, mythology, the occult, magic and alchemy. She saw herself as a metaphysical artist in a place where new ideals were being formed, lived and created through the arts.

Bridget Bate Tichenor photographed above by Man Ray and Francesco Scavullo.

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