Claude Cahun

Lot 145: Claude Cahun (1894-1954)

Name: Claude Cahun (1894-1954)
Brand: Christie's
SKU: it3l2c2t6h

Est: £45,000 GBP - £65,000 GBPSold:

Christie'sLondon, United KingdomFebruary 06, 2007

Item Overview

Description

La Marseillaise est un chant révolutionnaire, la loi punit le contrefaiteur des travaux forcés
wood and human hair
Height: 5 1/2 in. (14 cm.)
Executed in 1936

Artist or Maker

Claude Cahun

Exhibited

New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Surrealism: Two Private Eyes, June - September 1999, vol. 1, no. 264 (illustrated p. 344).

Literature

Exh. cat., Dada and Surrealism Reviewed, London, 1978, no. 12.1, p. 294.
F. Leperlier, Claude Cahun, l'écart et la métamorphose, Paris, 1992 (illustrated).
Oxford Art Journal, vol. 24, no. 1, 2001 (illustrated on the front cover).
G. Durozoi, History of the Surrealist Movement, Chicago & London, 2002 (illustrated p. 259).

Provenance

Galerie Charles Ratton, Paris.
Zabriskie Gallery, New York.
Probably acquired from the above by the present owner in the 1980s.

Notes

THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Auction Details

The Art of the Surreal

Christie's

February 06, 2007, 12:00 AM GMT

8 King Street, St. James's, London, LDN, SW1Y 6QT, UK

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