Claude Cahun is recognized worldwide as one of the leading artists of the Surrealist movement. Her work was rediscovered in the 1990s and can be compared with that of Cindy Sherman and Nan Goldin.
Claude Cahun was the artist pseudonym for Lucy Schwob who lived in Jersey with her stepsister Suzanne Malherbe (artist pseudonym Marcel Moore) from 1937 until her death in 1954.
Cahun was a writer and photographer who produced provoking self-portraits often using costumes or masks as a way of exploring her identity. Her images are enigmatic and can be described as rash and subtle, inviting and rejecting, sexual and asexual.
She lived in Jersey throughout the Occupation, carrying out resistance activities, which eventually led to her being imprisoned and sentenced to death. Fortunately the sentence was commuted and the island was liberated.
The Jersey Heritage Trust has one of the largest collections of Cahun's work in the world. The collection consists of photographs, original manuscripts, first editions, some of her books and personal material.
Dcuments relating to the imprisonment and death sentence of Lucy Schwob and Suzanne Malherbe during the Occupation are held at the Jersey Archive. Over 80 of Cahun's photographs can be viewed in a slide show, and a regularly changing display of original plates is shown at the Jersey Museum.
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