Renée Gauthier

Renée Gauthier was one of the first women to be involved in surrealism.

A close friend of Benjamin Péret, Gauthier took part in the hypnotic sleep experiments organized by René Crevel in 1922-3.{{cite book|author=Keith Aspley|title=Historical Dictionary of Surrealism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3KK7JHqNrRsC&pg=PA215|year=2010|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-5847-3|page=215}} She contributed an account of a dream, starting “I am in a field with Jim”, to the first issue of La Révolution surréaliste in December 1924.{{cite book|author=Penelope Rosemont|title=Surrealist Women|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hMIru5bweYgC&pg=PA10|year=2000|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=978-0-567-17128-3|page=10}}