Using the pen name Lisa Hirtz, she published her first book: Il était une petite pie [There was a little magpie] (with 8 pochoirs by Joan Miró) in 1928.
[2] In recent years, historians such as Marie-Claire Barnet, Mary Ann Caws, Renée Riese Hubert, Andréa Oberhuber, and Penelope Rosemont, have begun to un-do the "reducing" of Deharme to "a failed love story".
Man Ray once described Deharme's house, where she held her salons, as "a rambling affair, filled with strange objects and rococo furniture".
Le Phare de Neuilly provided space for radical juxtapositions of works by contributors such as "Natalie Barney, James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, and Jacques Lacan"[2] and was poignantly political and subversive.
[4] [The choice of the malevolent symbol of the Queen of Spades suggests that we would be wrong to relegate her work to the "fragile charm" category of "feline and floral femininity".