Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Rachel Baes (1 August 1912 May 1983) was a Belgian surrealist painter. Daughter of landscape painter and portraitist Émile Baes, Rachel Baes was born in Brussels. She had no formal artistic training, but began her career as an artist in 1929 when she exhibited works in Paris. Baes was a member of the surrealist group around René Magritte and had contacts with André Breton, Jean Cocteau, Max Ernst, Georges Bataille, Irène Hamoir, and Paul Éluard. Between 1936 and 1940, Baes had an affair with Joris Van Severen, leader of the extreme rightist Verdinaso party in Belgium. Van Severen was shot erroneously by French troops in 1940. Baes published an exculpatory biography of Van Severen Joris Van Severen, une âme in 1965, but without effect.