Christie’s roundel
Lot 94 The following three lots are from an archive of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore material, including photographs, drawings and other works of art. On Cahun's death in 1954, the collection stayed with Moore and was sold decades later after her death in 1972 in the Marcel Moore House Sale at Langlois, St Helier, Jersey.

CLAUDE CAHUN (1894-1954)

Self-portrait, c.1928

Closed1 July 2009

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GBP 20,000

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CLAUDE CAHUN (1894-1954)
Self-portrait, c.1928
gelatin silver print
stamped '008 RA 167' on verso
6½ x 4¾in. (16.7 x 12cm.)

Specialist note

Only one other print of this image is known, held in the Jersey Heritage Collection, Jersey.

Cahun plays with the duality of her nature with a photo-montaged double self-portrait set against the rocky landscape of Jersey.