MAN RAY (1890-1976)

Lot 421
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Lot 421 | MAN RAY (1890-1976)
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MAN RAY (1890-1976)
Swiftly Walk over the Western Wave
signed with initials and dated 'MR 40' (lower right); signed and dated again 'Man Ray 1940' (on the reverse)
oil on board
6 ¼ x 9 ½ in. (15.6 x 24 cm.)
Painted in 1940




Provenance

Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery, New York.
Maurice and Suzanne Vanderwoude, New York (acquired from the above 1970, until at least 1990).
Vanderwoude Tannenbaum Gallery, New York.
Penny and Elton Yasuna, Florida (acquired from the above, 1993); sale, Christie's, New York, 9 November 2000, lot 259.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.



Literature

S. Alexandrian, Man Ray, Paris, 1973, p. 19 (illustrated in color).
Janus, Man Ray: Oeuvres 1909-1972, Milan, 1973, no. 29 (illustrated in color).
A. Schwarz, Man Ray: The Rigour of Imagination, New York, 1977, pp. 76 and 363, no. 126 (illustrated, p. 97).



Exhibited

Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen; Paris, Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, and Humblebaek, Denmark, Louisiana Museum, Man Ray, September 1971-April 1972, p. 118, no. 26 (illustrated, p. 42).
New Brunswick, Rutgers University Art Gallery, Surrealism and American Art: 1931-1949, March-April 1977, p. 103, no. 120 (illustrated).
Washington D.C., National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art; Houston, The Menil Collection, and The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Perpetual Motif: The Art of Man Ray, December 1988-January 1990, pp. 223 and 281-283 (illustrated in color, p. 282, fig. 231).
St. Petersburg, Salvador Dalí Museum; The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art at The University of Chicago and Dennis, Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Surrealism in America During the 1930s and 1940s, Selections from the Penny and Elton Yasuna Collection, November 1998-September 2000, pp.150-152 (illustrated in color, p. 86, fig. 58).



Further details

Andrew Strauss and Timothy Baum of the Man Ray Expertise Committee have confirmed the authenticity of this work under reference 00452-P-2024 and that this work will be included in the Catalogue of Paintings of Man Ray, currently in preparation.
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