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MAN RAY (1890–1976)

Lot 36
17.11.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1492583
Lot 36 | MAN RAY (1890–1976)
Estimate value
$ 1 800 000 – 2 500 000
MAN RAY (1890–1976)
Sade, Pas Terminé, 1933
gelatin silver print
initialed and dated in pencil (recto); signed, titled and dated in pencil (verso)
image/sheet: 12 3/8 x 9 5/8 in. (31.4 x 24.4 cm.)




Provenance

Presumed gifted by the artist to his sister, Elsie Ray Siegler;
By descent to Naomi Savage, Princeton, 1957;
The Naomi Savage Estate, Milton, Pennsylvania;
Francis Naumann, New York, 2005;
acquired from the above by the present owner.



Literature

André Breton, Le Surréalisme au Service de la Revolution, No. 5, Éditions des Cahiers Libres, Paris, 15 May 1933, n.p. (variant).
Jane Livingston and Rosalind Krauss, L’Amour Fou: Photography and Surrealism, Abbeville Press, New York, 1985, frontispiece and p. 14 (variants).
Exhibition Catalogue, Dreaming with Open Eyes: The Vera and Arturo Schwarz Collection of Dada and Surrealist Art in the Israel Museum, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 2000, cat. 477, pp. 94, 183 (variant).
Exhibition Catalogue, Revelation: Representations of Christ in Photography, Merrell Publishers, London, 2003, p. 142 (variant).
Exhibition Catalogue, Surrealism and Beyond in the Israel Museum, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 2007, pp. 232, 281 (variant).
Exhibition Catalogue, Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention, The Jewish Museum, New York, 2009, p. 90 (variant).
Exhibition Catalogue, Man Ray: Human Equations, Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2015, p. 179 (variant).
Marquis de Sade, The 120 Days of Sodom, Penguin Classics, 2016, cover (variant).
Artist:Man Ray (1890 - 1976)
Applied technique:Gelatin silver print
Art style:Modern art
Genre:Nude art, Portrait
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
Auction house category:All other types of objects, Photography
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