Collection: Claude Cahun

Claude Cahun was a French artist, writer, and political activist whose photographic self-portraits, produced in Paris and Jersey from the 1910s through the 1940s, constitute one of the most sustained and radical explorations of identity, gender, and masquerade in twentieth-century art. Working largely outside institutional recognition during her lifetime, Cahun's practice was rediscovered and reassessed from the 1980s onward, placing her at the centre of debates around Surrealism, queer identity, and the politics of self-representation.

Publications collected here document Cahun's practice and its reception, including exhibition catalogues, artist publications, and printed matter through which her work entered institutional and private circulation.