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Man Ray (1890-1976)

Lot 338
11.04.2024 14:00UTC +01:00
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Lot 338 | Man Ray (1890-1976)
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Man Ray (1890-1976)

Le Violon d'lngres, 1924

sérigraphie sur celluloïde, réalisée vers 1970

signé et daté 'Man Ray 1924' (dans le négatif)

image : 54.7 x 44 cm.

feuille : 63 x 53 cm.



silkscreen on celluloid, executed c. 1970

signed and dated 'Man Ray 1924' (in the negative)

image : 21.4⁄8 x 17 3⁄8 in.

sheet : 24.6⁄8 x 20 7⁄8 in.





Provenance

Juliet Man Ray, Paris.

Collection Marion Meyer, Paris (acquis directement auprès de Gregory Browner / Man Ray Trust).



Literature

A. Breton, Littérature, juin 1924, couverture.

Le Bain turc d'Ingres, cat. ex., Musée du Louvre, Paris, 1971, no. 68.

Janus, Man Ray, Fabbri, Milan, 1973, p. 169.

R. Penrose, Man Ray, Chêne, Paris, 1975, p. 93.

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

J-H. Martin, Man Ray Photographs, New York, 1982, pl. 4, p. 16.

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

Man Ray, Man Ray : 1890-1976, New York, 1995, pl. 48, p. 46.

R. Kicken, Man Ray: 1890-1976, Photographien, Munich, 1996, pl. 53.

A. Sayag et E. de I'Écotais, Man Ray. La photographie à l'envers, Paris, 1998, p. 137.

Man Ray in Focus: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum, cat. ex., Getty Publications, Los Angeles, 1998, pl. 17, p. 40.

E. de L'Écotais, Man Ray: 1890-1976, Cologne, 2001, p. 43.

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

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

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

W. Grossman & A. Kamien-Kazhdan, Man Ray. Human Equations : A Journey from Mathematics to Shakespeare, Hatje Cantz, 2015, pl. 166, p. 179.

Man Ray et la mode, cat. ex., Musée de Luxembourg, Paris, 2019, pl. 19, p. 35.

E. de l’Écotais, 'Les Violon d’Ingres de Man Ray', in Photographica, n°7, juin 2023, pp. 153-169.



Exhibited

Bogota, Museo de Arte Banco de la Republica et Lima, Centro Cultural PUCP, Man Ray, Coleccion Marion Meyer, septembre 2010-juin 2011, p. 67.



Inscribed


Man Ray arrive à Paris en 1921, l’année suivante il fait la connaissance de Kiki de Montparnasse, qui, en plus d’être son amante, deviendra son modèle et sa muse. Elle lui inspire un certain nombre d’œuvres mémorables, parmi lesquelles Le Violon d’Ingres, en 1924, que l’on considère aujourd’hui comme la plus célèbre des photographies surréalistes.
Dans son article ‘Les Violons d’Ingres de Man Ray. Une étude comparative des différents exemplaires connus’ in. Photographica n°7 (editions de la Sorbonne, juin 2023), Emmanuelle de l’Écotais précise qu’il existe trois exemplaires de cette version en sérigraphie : “Sérigraphie sur plastique, en couleurs : une cyan, une magenta et une noir et blanc, 65 × 55 cm, vers 1970, édition en trois exemplaires pour le noir et blanc, en deux exemplaires pour le cyan et en un exemplaire pour le magenta.”


Man Ray arrived in Paris in 1921, the following year, he met Kiki de Montparnasse. They become lovers, and she became his muse, the inspiration for and subject of a number of his most memorable images, notably Le Violon d’Ingres of 1924, which is considered today to be the most famous surrealist photograph.
In her article ‘Man Ray’s Violon d’Ingres. A Comparative Study of Various Known Prints’ in. Photographica n°7 (éditions de la Sorbonne, June 2023), Emmanuelle de l’Écotais indicated that there exists three copies of this version in silkscreen: “Silkscreen on plastic, in colors: one cyan, one magenta and one black and white, 65 × 55 cm, circa 1970, edition in three copies for black and white, in two copies for cyan and in one copy for magenta.”
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