Claude Cahun
Self-Portrait

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Artist Claude Cahun (French, 1894–1954)French, 1894–1954

CultureFrench

Titles

Self-Portrait

Date1925

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 4 3/8 × 3 3/16 in. (11.1 × 8.1 cm)
Sheet: 4 5/8 × 3 7/16 in. (11.7 × 8.7 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Annenberg Foundation, courtesy of Wallis Annenberg, The Manfred Heiting Collection

Object number2002.742

Not on view

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Department

Photography

Special Collections

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

Provenance[Manfred Heiting, Malibu, California]; purchased by MFAH, 2002.
Exhibition History"Self, Model, and Self as Other," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,13 July – 29 September, 2013.

"The Surreal House," Barbican Centre, London, 10 June–19 September, 2010.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Inscribed in pencil on sheet verso: cc16644c

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