In interwar Paris, Claude Cahun worked at sapphic modernism’s sharpest edge, producing the arresting, Surrealist self-portraits that would be hailed some seven decades later as precursors to feminist, queer, and trans photographic investigations of identity.
Karel Appel, Untitled (1980), sold for $67,900, more than one and a half times the low estimate at Artcurial, Paris. Oil on paper mounted on canvas, 117.0 x 160.0cm.
Georges Mathieu, Lothair's Mistake (1954), sold for $100,300, more than one and a half times the low estimate at Artcurial, Paris. Oil on canvas, 130.0 x 81.0cm.
Richard Lin, Untitled (1968), sold for $46,700, more than the low estimate at Artcurial, Paris. Oil and aluminum collage on canvas, 61.0 x 61.0cm.
Ljuba, The Apparition (1967), sold for $38,600, more than one and a half times the low estimate at Artcurial, Paris. Oil on canvas, 150.0 x 176.0cm.
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