A black and white photograph of two people in front of a painted backdrop.
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Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

The black and white photograph shows a woman center, seated, wearing a loose, light-colored, sleeveless garment. Her head tilts to the right, she is wearing shiny eye shadow. Behind her is a figure, standing, wearing a diamond patterned top with dark colored ruffles on the shoulders. The figure is wearing a headdress with a diamond pattern, a dark vertical strip runs down the center. On the right of the standing figure is a two-branched object with light-colored leaves. The background shows two painted figures, one has wings, the other had a ragged light-colored neckline with upraised hands.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2012.203
People
Claude Cahun, French (Nantes, France 1894 - 1954 Bailiwick of Jersey)
Marcel Moore, French (Nantes, France 1892 - 1972 Bailiwick of Jersey)
Title
Untitled (Claude Cahun and Solange Roussot in costumes for Le Mystère d'Adam)
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1929
Places
Creation Place: Europe, France, Paris
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/341563

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
10.9 x 8 cm (4 5/16 x 3 1/8 in.)
sheet: 11.9 x 8.8 cm (4 11/16 x 3 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • (not assigned): There are no inscriptions on the verso.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Artist, gift; to Suzanne Malherbe (aka Marcel Moore); [Sotheby's, London (Belgravia?)], sold, c. 1979; to Soizic Audouard, consigned; to [Claude Givaudon, Geneva, and Galerie Berggruen, Paris, sold; to [Swann Galleries], 2005, sold; to [Rick Wester Fine Art, New York] sold; to Harvard Art Museums, 2012.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Richard and Ronay Menschel Fund for the Acquisition of Photographs and through the generosity of Saundra Lane
Copyright
© Estate of Claude Cahun
Accession Year
2012
Object Number
2012.203
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 1300 Early Modernism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/29/2015 - 10/14/2015

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