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Man Ray (1890-1976)

Lot 338
20.10.2023 17:00UTC +01:00
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Lot 338 | Man Ray (1890-1976)
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Man Ray (1890-1976)

Le violon d'Ingres, 1924

signé et annoté 'Man Ray E.A.' à l'encre (image, en bas à gauche); signé et daté 'Man Ray 1924' (négatif); annoté '1915 Weinberg' au crayon (au revers)

tirage argentique, tiré en 1971

image/feuille : 39,5 x 30 cm.

Exécutée en 1971, cette oeuvre est une épreuve d'artiste provenant d'une édition de huit exemplaires et trois épreuves d'artistes.



signed and annotated 'Man Ray E.A.' in ink (image, lower left); signed and dated 'Man Ray 1924' (negative); annotated '1915 Weinberg' in pencil (on the reverse)

gelatin silver print, printed 1971

image/sheet: 15.4⁄8 x 11.6⁄8 in.

Executed in 1971, this work is an Artist’s Proof coming from an edition of eight and three Artist’s Proofs





Provenance

Arturo Schwartz, Milan.

Galerie des 4 Mouvements, Paris.

Collection particulière, Paris.

Vente, Calmels Scp., Paris, 20 juin 1997, lot 50.

Acquis au cours de cette vente par le propriétaire actuel.



Literature

A. Breton, Littérature, juin 1924 (illustré, couverture).

Le Bain turc d'Ingres, cat. ex. Musée du Louvre, Paris, 1971, no. 68 (illustré, n.p.).

Janus, Man Ray, Fabbri, Milan, 1973 (illustré, p. 169).

R. Penrose, Man Ray, Chêne, Paris, 1975 (illustré, p. 93).

A. Schwarz, Man Ray: The Rigour of Imagination, Rizzoli, New York, 1977, pl. 415 (illustré, p. 255).

J-H. Martin, Man Ray Photographs, Thames and Hudson, New York, 1982, pl. 4 (illustré, p. 16).

M. Foresta, Perpetual Motif: The Art of Man Ray, cat. ex. National Museum of American Art, Abbeville Press, New York, 1988, pl. 262 (illustré, p. 317).

M Ray, Man Ray : 1890-1976, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1995, pl. 48 (illustré, p. 46).

R. Kicken, Man Ray: 1890-1976, Photographien, Hirmer Verlag, Munich, 1996, pl. 53 (illustré, n.p.).

A. Sayag & E. De I'Ecotais, Man Ray: Photography and its Double, Gingko Press, Corte Madera, 1998 (illustré, p. 137).

K. Ware, Man Ray in Focus: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Publications, Los Angeles, 1998, pl. 17 (illustré, p. 40).

E. de L'Ecotais, Man Ray: 1890-1976, Taschen, Cologne, 2001 (illustré, p. 43).

Man Ray, cat. ex. Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2003 (illustré, p. 66).

M. Klein, Alias Man Ray, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2009, pl. 84 (illustré, p. 87).

E.C. Garcia, Man Ray in Paris, Tate Publishing, Londres, 2011, pl. 37 (illustré, p. 75).

W. Grossman & A. Kamien-Kazhdan, Man Ray. Human Equations : a journey from mathematics to Shakespeare, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, 2015, pl. 166 (illustré, p. 179).

Man Ray et la mode, cat. ex. Musée de Luxembourg, Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Paris, 2019, pl. 19 (illustré, p. 35).

E. de l’Ecotais, 'Les Violon d’Ingres de Man Ray', in Photographica, No. 6, 2023, pp. 153-169.



Exhibited

Nice, Musée d'art moderne et d'art contemporain, Man Ray : Retrospective, février-juin 1997.

Brühl, Max Ernst Museum, Man Ray – Fotograf im Paris der Surrealisten, septembre-décembre 2013.

Herford, Stiftung Ahlers Pro Arte, Gesicht und Maske – Rollenspiele in der Porträtkunst, septembre-décembre 2017.

Minden, Modehaus Hagemeyer & Pierre Cardin, Gesicht und Maske – Rollenspiele in der Porträtkunst, octobre-novembre 2018.

Aschaffenburg, Kunsthalle Jesuitenkirche, Museen der Stadt, Man Ray: Magier auf Papier... und der Zauber der Dinge Magician on Paper... and the Magic of Objects, juillet-octobre 2021.
Artist:Man Ray (1890 - 1976)
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