Object Information

Claude Cahun
French, 1894–1954

Object, 1936

Wood, paint, and hair
5 3/8 x 6 3/8 x 4 in. (13.7 x 10.7 x 16 cm)
Not signed, inscribed on base: La Marseillaise est un chant révolutionnaire, la loi punit le contrefaiteur des travaux forcés
Through prior gift of Mrs. Gilbert W. Chapman, 2007.30

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Paris, Galerie Charles Ratton, Exposition surréaliste d’objets, May 1936.
Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Le Surréalisme: Sources-Histoire-Affinités, 1964, no. 492.
London, Hayward Gallery, Dada and Surrealism Reviewed, January 11–March 27, 1978, no. 12.1, p. 294 (ill.).
New York, Zabriskie Gallery, 1936 Surrealism, 18 February–4 April 1986, pp. 2 (ill.) and 20.
Berkeley, University Art Museum, University of California, Anxious Visions: Surrealist Art, October 3–December 30, 1990, no. 21, pp. 32 (ill.), 33, 285.
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Surrealism: Two Private Eyes, The Nesuhi Ertegun and Daniel Filipacchi Collections, June 4–September 12, 1999, no. 264, vol. 1, p. 344 (illus.).

Publication History

Richard Martin, Fashion and Surrealism (New York, 1987), p.70 (ill.)
François Leperlier, Claude Cahun, l'écart et la métamorphose (Paris, 1992).
Steven Harris, "Coup d'oeil," Oxford Art Journal, 24,1 (2001): 89–12, cover, (ill.) and fig. 1.
G. Durozoi, Histoire du mouvement surréaliste (Paris, 1997), p. 259 (ill).
Steven Harris, Surrealist Art and Thought in the 1930s: Art, Politics, and the Psyche (London, 2004), p. 163–173, p. 165 (ill.), fig. 20.
Zabriskie Gallery, Zabriskie: Fifty Years (New York, 2004), pp. opp. 26 (ill.), 27.
Louise Downie, ed. Don't Kiss Me: The Art of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore (London, 2006),
p. 17.
François Leperlier, Claude Cahun: l’Exotisme interior (Paris, 2006), 328–31, fig. 99.

Ownership History

Galerie Charles Ratton, Paris, 1936–at least 1978 [Harris 2004 and London 1978]; Zabriskie Gallery, New York, by 1986 [Harris 2004]; sold to private collection (Daniel Filippachi), 1980s.