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Claude Cahun as Anti-Nazi Resistance Fighter. In 1937, feeling increasingly trapped by the political climate in Paris, Claude Cahun escaped to the Isle of Jersey. Along with Guernsey and the other British Channel Islands just off the coast of Brittany, Jersey was a popular site for vacation homes belonging to bourgeois citizens from the nearby ...
Cahun (a pseudonym for Lucy Schwob) and Marcel Moore (Suzanne Malherbe, 1892-1972) were an extraordinary couple who worked and lived together for more than 40 years. Avid participants in the cultural avant-garde in Montparnasse during the 1920s and 30s, they ultimately moved to Jersey, in the Channel Islands, the only part of Great Britain to ...
Jun 19, 2019 · Cahun’s art spoke to David Bowie, who was known for his shifting personas. He arranged a flashy, high-tech, outdoor presentation of her photographs in New York in 2007, telling reporters her ...
26 APRIL - 17 MAY 2024. Opening Thursday 25 April, 17:30-19:30. ARTISTS: RACHEL ARA, LUCIE BENNETT, SIR PETER BLAKE, CLAUDE CAHUN & MARCEL MOORE, EDY FERGUSON, KAREN LE ROY HARRIS, LAURA HUDSON, WILL LAKEMAN, LINDSAY RUTTER, JULIETTE ST JOHN NICOLLE, STORM THORGERSON AND JOE WEBB. CCA Galleries International is pleased to present an exhibition ...
Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore. 5. Dora Carrington. The relationships we share with one another can shape our lives, our work and even history itself. Here are five important queer relationships which influenced the canon of art. 1. Sappho. Sappho and Erinna in a Garden at Mytilene is a touching image of female love. The piece is inspired by ...
Leonor Fini 1937 Panneau decorative pour boutique de Marcel Rochas. This will be Ref No 0297 in the forthcoming “Leonor Fini Catalogue Raisonne of the Oil Paintings” by Richard Overstreet and Neil Zukerman to be published in the spring of 2020 by Scheidegger & Spiess/Park Books, Zurich. #leonorfini #catalogueraisonne #Surrealist #oilpaintings #scheidegger&spiess #richardoverstreet # ...
Curator Anne O’Hehir has said that ‘the eye represented Moore, the artist, and the mouth, Cahun, the writer and actor’. 2 O’Hehir and Wise, ‘Sole survivor: Re-evaluating and conserving Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore’s only known remaining photomontage used for Cahun’s 1930 publication Aveux non Avenus (Disavowed Confessions ...
