Cahun · selfportraits with cat

selfportrait with cat, lucy schwob, marcel moore
Claude Cahun & Marcel Moore :: Lucie and kid, Nantes, vers 1926. Tirage argentique. | src Christie's
Claude Cahun & Marcel Moore :: Lucie and Kid, Nantes, vers 1926. Tirage argentique. | src Christie’s, also MAM

“Lucy and Kid”. Nantes, ca.1926. Original silver print. This piece seems to close the series of “self-portraits with a glass globe” (1926), which initiates complex manipulations, technical processes that Claude Cahun (along with Marcel Moore) will later use for photomontages (1929-1939). Note the disturbing position of the suspended cat, held above the void against a background reminiscent of the decor of an expressionist film.

Claude Cahun & Marcel Moore :: Autoportrait au Chat, ca. 1927. Tirage argentique sépia. | src Musée d'art de Nantes
Claude Cahun & Marcel Moore :: Autoportrait au Chat, ca. 1927. Tirage argentique sépia. | src Musée d’art de Nantes

Claude Cahun Cat 1925-1940

Claude Cahun (Lucy Schwob) :: Chat à la vasque, 1925 - 1930. Vintage silver print on Velox paper. | src Sotheby's
Claude Cahun (Lucy Schwob) :: Chat à la vasque, 1925 – 1930. Vintage silver print on Velox paper. | src Sotheby’s
Claude Cahun (Lucy Schwob) :: Chat à la cloche, 1925 - 1930. Vintage silver print on Velox paper. | src Sotheby's
Claude Cahun (Lucy Schwob) :: Chat à la cloche, 1925 – 1930. Vintage silver print on Velox paper. | src Sotheby’s
Claude Cahun (Lucy Schwob) :: La chambre du chat. Gelatin silver print signed, titled, and dated 1940 in ink on the reverse. | src Sotheby's
Claude Cahun (Lucy Schwob) :: La chambre du chat. Gelatin silver print signed, titled, and dated 1940 in ink on the reverse. | src Sotheby’s

Lady with kitten, Jugend, 1898

Adolf Münzer (München). Jugend: Münchner illustrierte Wochenschrift für Kunst und Leben, Mai 1898, III Jahrgang, Nr 20.
Adolf Münzer (München). Jugend: Münchner illustrierte Wochenschrift für Kunst und Leben, Mai 1898, III Jahrgang, Nr 20.
Adolf Münzer (München). Jugend: Münchner illustrierte Wochenschrift für Kunst und Leben, 1898, Nr 20. (detail)
Adolf Münzer (München). Jugend: Münchner illustrierte Wochenschrift für Kunst und Leben, 1898, Nr 20. (detail)

A Woman. A Mirror…, 1975-76

Francesca Woodman :: Untitled, Providence, Rhode Island, Relating to the series, A Woman. A Mirror. A Woman Is a Mirror for a Man, 1975-76.
Francesca Woodman :: Untitled, Providence, Rhode Island. Series ‘A Woman. A Mirror. A Woman is a mirror for a man’, 1975-1976
Francesca Woodman :: Untitled, Providence, Rhode Island. Series ‘A Woman. A Mirror. A Woman is a mirror for a man’, 1975-1976
Francesca Woodman :: Untitled, Providence, Rhode Island, Relating to the series, A Woman. A Mirror. A Woman Is a Mirror for a Man, 1975-76. | src Sotheby's
Francesca Woodman :: Untitled, Providence, Rhode Island, Relating to the series, A Woman. A Mirror. A Woman Is a Mirror for a Man, 1975-76. | src Sotheby’s

Geesje Kwak in a kimono, 1893

George Hendrik Breitner :: Girl (Geesje Kwak) in a kimono in Breitner's studio on Lauriergracht, Amsterdam, 1893. Gelatin silver print. RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History The Hague    
used as model for George Hendrik Breitner's Meisje in kimono
George Hendrik Breitner :: Girl (Geesje Kwak) in a kimono in Breitner’s studio on Lauriergracht nr. 8, Amsterdam, 1893. Gelatin silver print. RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History The Hague
used as model for George Hendrik Breitner’s Meisje in kimono
George Hendrik Breitner :: Girl (Geesje Kwak) in a kimono (and cat) in Breitner's studio on Lauriergracht nr. 8, Amsterdam, 1893. Gelatin silver print. RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History The Hague
George Hendrik Breitner :: Girl (Geesje Kwak) in a kimono (and cat) in Breitner’s studio on Lauriergracht nr. 8, Amsterdam, 1893. Gelatin silver print. RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History The Hague

Steinlen: Chats, 1909

Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen (1859-1923) :: L’Été-Chat sur une Balustrade (top) & L’Hiver-Chat sur un Coussin (bottom), 1909
Lithographs in colors on heavy wove paper and wove paper backed with Japan, printed by R. Engelmann, Paris. | src Bonhams

Foujita self-portaits, 1928

Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita :: Autoportrait au chat, 1927. Fondation Foujita-Adagp, Paris-Archives artistiques. | src The New York Review
Léonard Foujita (Tsuguharu Foujita, dit) :: Portrait de l’artiste, 1928. Peinture. | src Centre Pompidou

Lionel Wendt’s Ceylon

Lionel Wendt :: ‘And no birds sing’, Lionel Wendt’s Ceylon, Lincolns-Prager Publishers Ltd (Publisher, for Lionel Wendt Memorial Fund), London, 1950, p.201. Photogravure print, photomontage. | src vintageads on eBay
Lionel Wendt :: Strange Décor [“Shaw or Stalin”,Russia Today, 1941 issue], 1933-34, photogravure, from Lionel Wendt’s Ceylon (London, Lincolns-Prager Publishers Ltd, 1950). | src British Art Studies