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Lot #799: CLAUDE CAHUN - Autoportrait à tête allongée - Original vintage photogravure



Lot #799: CLAUDE CAHUN - Autoportrait à tête allongée - Original vintage photogravure

  Lot #799: CLAUDE CAHUN - Autoportrait à tête allongée - Original vintage photogravure


Pre-auction estimates:  $800/1000
 
Sale price: $745.00

   

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Artist: Claude Cahun (French, 1894-1954).
Title: "Autoportrait à tête allongée".
Medium: Original vintage photogravure.
Date: Composed 1928. Printed 1930.
Dimensions: Image size: 6 1/8 x 4 3/8 in. (156 x 111 mm).
Lot Note(s): Stamped with the photographer's name, verso. Edition unknown, presumed small. High-grade archival paper. Printed to the edge of the sheet. Fine, quality printing. Very good to fine condition; affixed to very thin and supple archival acid-free support sheet, not mount/board. Comment(s): A very rare print – no auction records of this image located. In recent years Cahun’s altered self-portraits (silver prints) have sold from $20,000 to upwards of $100,000. She called these deformed self-portraits with shaven head her "monstrosities," in this image her head shaped as if by an “anamorphic” mirror. Cahun, born Lucie Renee Mathilde Schwob to a prominent Jewish family, was a Surrealist photographer whose work explored gender identity and the subconscious mind. In the early 1920s she would change her name to the gender neutral Claude Cahun. Speaking of her self-portraits the photographer famously said, “Under this mask, another mask. I will never be finished removing all these faces.” Image copyright © The Estate of Claude Cahun. [24908-2-600]

 

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