Claude was a French artist, photographer and writer born on October 25 in 1894 and raised by her grandmother because her mother had mental issues. Her Work involved both political as well as personal statements that challenged the roles of gender and sexuality in a surrealist style. Claude who was born Lucy Renee Mathilde Schwob, started to experiment with androgynous self portrait by the early age of 18 and continued through the 1930s. In early 1920s she moved to Paris with her partner and stepsister Suzanne Malherbe who goes by Marcel Moore and they continued to collaborate in works of writing, sculpture, photo montages and collages.
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Suzanne Malherbe also known as Marcel Moore was Claude's partner and was a surrealist writer and photographer that was involved in art work with Calude. She was also buried with Claude.
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