Claude Cahun (Lucy Schwob), La vitrine de chaussures (shoe showcase), London, 1936
Claude Cahun (French pronunciation: [klod ka.œ̃], born Lucy Renee Mathilde Schwob; 25 October 1894 – 8 December 1954) was a French surrealist. Lucy Schwob was a writer, actress, and outspoken member of the Parisian lesbian community between the two world wars. She and Suzanne Malherbe, her stepsister, became partners in life, love, and art, and took the ambiguously gendered pseudonyms Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore for their collaborative theatrical and photographic works. The images they made mostly depict Cahun, and sometimes Moore, in a variety of masculine, androgynous, and feminine personas set in minimally staged scenes in their home. (x)
Claude Cahun and his companion Suzanne Malherbe accompanied Jacqueline Lamba and André Breton to London during the first international exhibition of surrealism, organized by David Gascoyne, Roland Penrose and ELT Mesens, inaugurated on June 11, 1936.
[Anne Egger, 2023, Atelier André Breton] (x)
