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Que me veux tu?

1929
Not on view
On loan to The Met
This work of art is currently on loan to the museum.
A creative chameleon who openly grappled with gender identity in her life and her art, Cahun was keenly attuned to the quintessentially modern condition of self-alienation—a sentiment expressed with exquisite economy by her hero, the French poet Arthur Rimbaud, in his famous line “Je est un autre” (“I is another”). In this polycephalic self-portrait, she appears magnetically bound to her own doppelgänger in a monstrous embodiment of internal struggle.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Que me veux tu?
  • Artist: Claude Cahun (French, Nantes 1894–1954 Saint Helier, Jersey)
  • Date: 1929
  • Medium: Gelatin silver print
  • Dimensions: Image: 18 x 23 cm (7 1/16 x 9 1/16 in.)
  • Classification: Photographs
  • Credit Line: Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
  • Curatorial Department: Photographs