Captured in 1931, "Je Tends Les Bas" presents Claude Cahun at her most theatrically charged, staging the self as both subject and spectacle in a carefully constructed tableau that defies easy categorization. The title, translating roughly as "I Am Pulling Up My Stockings," introduces an act of mundane intimacy only to subvert it entirely, as Cahun's gaze meets the camera with an unsettling directness that refuses passivity. The composition reflects Cahun's broader photographic practice of destabilizing fixed identity, deploying costume, pose, and expression as tools of deliberate ambiguity rather than self-revelation. As a signed work, this piece carries the rare weight of Cahun's direct authentication, lending it particular significance within a body of work that was largely collaborative with her partner Marcel Moore and existed outside conventional exhibition circuits during her lifetime. Cahun's photographs occupied a space between Surrealism and something more urgently personal, informed by her Jewish identity, her gender nonconformity, and her later resistance activities in Nazi-occupied Jersey. The market for her photographs has grown substantially in recent decades as institutional retrospectives and scholarly reassessment have positioned her among the most intellectually vital artists of the twentieth century avant-garde. Currently held at the East Gallery at Norwich University of the Arts, this work is accessible to collectors at a moment when Cahun's critical reputation continues to consolidate. Acquiring a signed photograph from 1931 places a collector in direct proximity to one of the defining periods of her practice, when the self-portrait had become for Cahun a medium of genuine philosophical and political consequence.