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Alice Bailly — Rade de Genève ou Vol de mouettes — Image creditsAlice Bailly · MCBA, Lausanne · Photo Paradise Chronicle / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Alice Bailly — « Rade de Genève ou Vol de mouettes ».
Alice Bailly · MCBA, Lausanne · Photo Paradise Chronicle / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Alice Bailly · 5 min read

Alice Bailly: when war closes off Paris and sets the roadstead in motion

Stranded in Switzerland by the war of 1914, Alice Bailly loses access to her supporters in Paris. Yet with Rade de Genève ou Vol de mouettes, she transforms this enforced return into a pictorial manifesto.

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Alice Bailly — Femme au miroir ou Femme à la toilette — Image creditsAlice Bailly · Photo Uto / Wikimedia Commons · CC0 1.0
Alice Bailly — « Femme au miroir ou Femme à la toilette ». Another work by the artist, chosen as a visual connection to the story.
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Alice Bailly · 2 min read

Alice Bailly: when wool claims its place among the fine arts

In Geneva, during the First World War, Alice Bailly transforms wool and silk threads and metallic papers into paintings. With Les rythmiciennes, this technique, regarded as a craft, becomes a pictorial manifesto.

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