Claude Cahun

A first edition, presentation copy of Le Coeur de Pic, inscribed by Claude Cahun.

• Claude Cahun [pseudonym of Lucy Schwob] (French).
• Lise Deharme (French).
• Preface by Paul Eluard.
• Le Coeur de Pic. Trente-deux poèmes pour les enfants illustrés de vingt photographies par Claude Cahun.
• Paris: Librairie José Corti, 1937.
• Quarto.
• 60 pages.
• 20 photographs printed in relief halftone.
• Inscribed by Claude Cahun in different colored pencils on first page.
• Red cloth-covered boards over green cloth spine, titles in black on upper side, color photographic reproductions on upper and lower.

Presentation copy, inscribed by Claude Cahun: 'á Germaine [Hennes] et J. Euzenat / Bien amicalement / Claude'. Deharme and Cahun, who were both active in French surrealist circles, envisioned Le Coeur de Pic as a cohesive artwork. Cahun’s photographs brought inanimate objects to life and encouraged older viewers to see the world through a child’s perspective. ‘Beyond its visual accomplishments, Le Coeur de Pic is also noteworthy as a collaborative project between two women artists. Well into the 1930s, surrealist women were still perceived as muses rather than creators, a realty that complicated collaborative projects between female artists and often resulted in the critical dismissal of their work’ (What They Saw 94).