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Claude Cahun

Portrait of Jacqueline Lamba and André Breton

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Claude Cahun

1894 - 1954


Portrait of Jacqueline Lamba and André Breton

dated 1936 (in the margin)

ferrotyped gelatin silver print

18 by 15.5 cm. 7 by 6⅛ in.

framed: 53.5 by 43.5 cm. 21 by 17⅛ in.

Executed in 1936.


This work is accompanied by a letter of authenticity, signed by François Leperlier.

Galerie Zabriskie, Paris

Acquired from the above in 1992 by the present owner

Louise Downie, ed., Don't Kiss Me: The Art of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, New York, 2006, pp. 48 and 163, another example illustrated

Géraldine Lay and François Leperlier, eds., Claude Cahun, London, 2023, no. 45, variant illustrated