Grayson Perry a transvestite. At the age of 15 he moved in with his father's family in Chelmsford, where he began to go out dressed as a woman. When he was discovered by his father he said he would stop but his stepmother told everyone about it and a few months later threw him out. He returned to his mother and stepfather at Great Bardfield. Perry frequently appears in public dressed as a woman, and he has described his female alter-ego, "Claire", variously as "a 19th century reforming matriarch, a middle-England protester for "No More Art", an aero-model-maker, or an Eastern European
Still Life with Head-Shaped Vase and Japanese Woodcut direction of Mahmoud Shalouithe, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. and the Tate Modern in London tried to borrow the painting but the requests were rejected. Still Life with Head-Shaped Vase and Japanese Woodcut Still Life with Head-Shaped Vase and Japanese Woodcut is an 1889 still life painting by French artist, Paul Gauguin. It is currently in the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tehran, Iran. In 1888 and 1889 Gauguin's enthusiasm for Japanese ukiyo-e woodcuts emerged. Japanese prints appeared in the background of his "Apple and Vase" painting, his portrait of "The Schuffenecker Family" and