Sheila Legge (UK, 1911–1949), Surrealist performance artist, best known for her 1936 Trafalgar Square performance for the opening of London International Surrealist Exhibition, posing in an ensemble inspired by a Salvador Dalí painting, with her head completely obscured by a flower arrangement.
about the photographer:
Claude Cahun (1894–1954), born Lucy Renee Mathilde Schwob, French photographer and writer, associated with the surrealist movement. She adopted the gender-ambiguous name Claude Cahun in 1917 and is best known for self-portraits, in which she assumed a variety of personas.
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https://palianshow.wordpress.com/2021/10/15/reminder-claude-cahun/
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‘International Surrealist Exhibition’, New Burlington Galleries, London, 1936.
Standing left to right: Rupert Lee, Ruthven Todd, Salvador Dali, Paul Eluard, Roland Penrose, Herbert Read, E.L.T. Mesens, George Reavey and Hugh Sykes Williams.
Seated left to right: Diana Brinton Lee, Nusch Eluard, Eileen Agar, Sheila Legge and an unidentified friend of Dali
Sheila Legge bei ihrer Performance «Surrealist Phantom of Sex Appeal» – zur Eröffnung der «International Surrealist Exhibition» in London (1936). Courtesy of the Jerseys Heritage Collections
https://www.republik.ch/2020/10/02/muse-welche-muse-surrealistinnen-meret-oppenheim-sheila-legge
photo source http://williampinfold.com/82-years-ago-today-the-international-surrealist-exhibition/
https://www.flashpointmag.com/British_Surrealism_1.htm
https://www.flashpointmag.com/Surr_Bulletin_No4.jpg
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