MAN RAY (1870-1976)

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ID 1548099
Los 209 | MAN RAY (1870-1976)
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£ 50 000 – 70 000
MAN RAY (1870-1976)
La prière (The prayer)
signed 'Man Ray' (lower right); numbered 'II/VII' (lower left)
gelatin silver print on linen, printed late 1960s
12 7/8 x 9 3/8in. (32.8 x 23.7cm.)
Executed in 1930, this work is number two from an edition of seven




Provenance

White Cube, London.
Roger and Josette Vanthournout, Belgium, by whom acquired from the above, and thence by descent.



Literature

R. Penrose, Man Ray, London, 1975, no. 60 (illustrated, p. 105).
E. Janus, Man Ray: L'Immagine Fotografica, exh. cat., La Biennale di Venezia, 1977, pl. 90.
A. Schwarz, The Rigour of Imagination, Man Ray, London, 1977, p. 64.
Man Ray Inventionen und Interpretationen, Frankfurt 1979, p. 168 (illustrated in colour, p. 142).
Man Ray: Vintage Photographs, Solarizations and Rayographs, exh. cat., Kimmel/Cohn Photography Arts, New York, 1977, pl. 83.
J.-H. Martin et al., Man Ray: Photographs, New York, 1982, p. 191, p. 157.
Man Ray, exh. cat., Ronny Van de Velde, Antwerp, 1994, p. 90, no. 60.
Man Ray: La photographie à l'envers, exh. cat., Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1998, pp. 164-165.
E. de l'Ecotais et al., Man Ray, New York, 2000, p. 63.
E.C. Garcia, Man Ray in Paris, exh. cat., J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2011, p. 86.
Man Ray/Lee Miller: Partners in Surrealism, exh. cat., Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, 2011, p. 76.
Man Ray, exh. cat., Museo d'Arte della Città di Lugano, 2011, p. 142 (variant).



Exhibited

Washington D.C., National Museum of American Art, Perpetual Motif: The Art of Man Ray, 1988-1990, p. 216 (illustrated, fig. 190). This exhibition later travelled to Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art and Houston, The Menil Collection and Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Miami, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sweet Dreams and Nightmares: Dada and Surrealism from the Rosalind and Melvin Jacobs Collection, 2000.
London, Tate Britain, Lee Miller, 2026.
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