Claude Cahun

[French Surrealist Photographer, 1894-1954]

• Also known as:	Lucy Schwob
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Museums and Public Art Galleries:

Claude Cahun at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Photograph collection online

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Untitled (Self-Portrait), photograph

Jersey Heritage Trust, UK
Database of material connected with the Claude Cahun Collection. "e.g. newspaper and magazine clippings, photographs of unknown origin which may be family archives etc. This material was in boxes and portofolios known to have belonged to Claude Cahun (Lucy Schwob) and Marcel Moore (Suzanne Malherbe)."

Jersey Heritage Trust, UK
Extensive biography of Cahun and her stepsister, Suzanne Malherbe ("Marcel Moore")

Jersey Heritage Trust, UK
There's a link to more of Cahun's work at the bottom of the page

Jersey Heritage Trust, UK
Database of 324 photographs

Claude Cahun in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database

Neue Galerie Graz, Austria NEW!
Information about a 1997 exhibition - Claude Cahun: Self-portraits

Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas
Untitled (Self-Portrait)

Professional Tools:

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Other Web Sites:

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Articles:

Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia

The Guardian Newspaper, UK
What Do You Want From Me?

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