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Claude Cahun: A Very Curious Spirit

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Claude Cahun, 1927

Who? “Under this mask, another mask”. So wrote Claude Cahun, the alter ego of Lucie Schwob, Surrealist writer and photographer. Her writing and art are similarly polymorphous and difficult to categorise, challenging fixed ideas around self-identity and authenticity. Whilst living in Paris, Cahun associated with Man Ray, Salvador Dalí and André Breton – the latter describing her as "one of the most curious spirits of our time" – exhibiting in the Surrealist…

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Claude Cahun, 1920
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Claude Cahun, 1927
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Claude Cahun, 1928
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Claude Cahun as Elle in Barbe bleue, 1929
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Claude Cahun, Self portrait (in cupboard), c. 1932
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Claude Cahun, 1939
 
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