Claude Cahun

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Description

Claude Cahun
Rendent hélas éternels
Titled rendent hélas éternels (on the artist's mount); signed (on the verso)
Silver gelatin print
Image: 7 by 5 in. 17.8 by 12.7 cm
Mount: 11 5/8 by 8 3/4 in. 29.5 by 22.2 cm

Provenance

Private Collection, Paris

Exhibited

New York, L. Parker Stephenson, Women Photographers in 1920s-1930s Paris, 2013
Vancouver, Vancouver Art Gallery, The Colour of My Dreams: The Surrealist
Revolution in Art, 2011, illustrated in the catalogue

Literature

Claude Cahun. Photographe 1894-1954 (exhibition catalogue), Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris, 1995, p. 155, illustrated pl. 214

Condition

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