The Little Oracle's Lament

Details About Oil on linen, mounted on panel 14 x 17 in.  © 2025 16.5 x 19.5 in. (f)  Framing included  Rachel Bensimon is a New York-based painter whose narrative, figurative works explore the fragile terrain of memory, identity, and emotional  Working in a pop surrealist style with classical influence, she creates intimate, psychologically charged portrait, mostly young girls, set within tender, dreamlike worlds. Her subjects, rendered with luminous detail, are caught between childhood and awakening, often accompanied by symbolic objects, animals, or rituals that speak to themes of longing, loss, protection, and transformation. Bensimon draws deeply from her own lived experience, weaving personal memory, archetype, and emotional myth into each piece. Her paintings act as visual memoirs, blending sweetness with sorrow, domestic with uncanny, the visible with the veiled. Through these quiet narratives, she gives form to the internal world of the child left to make sense of c