Double portrait of Rachel Baes and Suzanne Bonhiver.

Original photograph, silver bromide print, b/w, 16,1 x 22 cm, photographer's blindstamp on lower left corner, ink stamp on verso, under passe-partout, framed.

Portrait of Rachel Baes (1912-1983), Belgian surrealist painter active in the circle of Eluard, Breton, Cocteau, Léautaud, Magritte etc. and her friend Suzanne Bonhiver. Willy Kessels (1889-1974) was a Belgian photographer and is seen as the most important representative of the "modernist" photography that came to the fore from the end of the 1920s.
Joined: 1. Willy Kessels. France, Trans Photographic Press, 1998. - 2. De Naeyer, Christine - W. Kessels. Charleroi, Musée de la photographie, 1996. (3 pcs)