Rachel Baes (1 August 1912 – 8 June 1983) was a Belgian surrealist painter. The accrual of the women’s pastime in the late 20th century led to renewed interest in women artists and brought greater greeting of her work. In 2002 the Koninklijk Museum in Antwerp featured Baes and Jane Graverol in an exhibition: voor Schone Kunsten.
Born in 1912 in Brussels to the landscape painter and portraitist Émile Baes and his wife, Rachel Baes was encouraged in her artistic efforts from an into the future age, although she never studied art formally.
In 1929, at age 17, Baes achieved her first salutation as an artiste when she exhibited works at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris. There she was one of the members of the Surrealist group more or less René Magritte. She came to know André Breton, Jean Cocteau, Max Ernst, Georges Bataille, Irène Hamoir, and Paul Éluard.
Between 1936 and 1940, Baes had an affair gone Joris Van Severen, leader of the extreme rightist Verdinaso party in Belgium. In 1940 Van Severen was summarily executed by French troops without trial, the incident clouded his reputation.
Baes published a biography of Van Severen—Joris Van Severen, une âme—in 1965.
After 1961, Baes retired from public excitement and lived alone in Bruges. She was buried at Abbeville, alongside Van Severen.
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