André Thirion (14 July 1907 – 4 January 2001) was a French writer, a member of the group of surrealists, a theorist and political activist.
His photograph composes the framework of the work of René Magritte, Je ne vois pas la [femme] cachée dans la forêt (1928); He appears in tenth position, starting in a clockwise direction from the upper left corner.
[2] Published in 1972, under the title Révolutionnaires sans révolution, his testimony constantly "doubles as a critical commentary which revives surrealist thought while at the same time correcting its illusions".
[3] He participated to the magazine Le Surrealisme au service de la revolution, supported the film L'Âge d'or by Luis Buñuel[1] and Salvador Dalí.
[1] During the Second World War, he incorporated the Gaullist resistance[1] and became an MP for the Rassemblement du peuple français at the Liberation of France.