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MAN RAY (1890–1976)

Lot 10
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Lot 10 | MAN RAY (1890–1976)
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MAN RAY (1890–1976)

Noire et Blanche

gelatin silver print

signed and annotated ‘Paris’ by Man Ray (lower right); signed and inscribed ‘La femme aux yeux clos a une grande admiration pour la femme aux yeux ouverts’ by Kiki (lower left); stamped photographer’s Campagne Première credit three times (on the reverse)

Image/sheet: 6 5/8 x 9 in. (16.8 x 22.8 cm.)

1926





Provenance

Alice Ernestine Prin (Kiki de Montparnasse), Paris (acquired from the artist).

Asta Nielsen, Denmark (acquired from the above).

Hans Henrik Lerfeldts, Denmark (acquired from the Estate of the above, circa 1972); sale, Bruun Rasmussen, Copenhagen, 29 September 1992, lot 19.

Michael Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco.

Private collection, San Francisco; sale, Christie’s, New York, 5 October 1995, lot 19.

Acquired at the above sale by the family of the present owner.



Literature

"Visage de Nacre et Masque d’Ébène" in Vogue Paris, vol. 7, no. 5, 1 May 1926, p. 37.

Man Ray, Variétés, vol. 1, no. 3, 15 July 1928, p. 154.

Migennes, "Les Photographies de Man Ray" in Art et Décoration, vol. 54, no. 5, November 1928, pp. 154-160.

Man Ray: Photographies 1920-1934, New York, 1934, pl. 44.

M. Ray, Photographs: 1920-1934, New York, 1975, p. 44.

Man Ray: L'Immagine Fotografica, exh. cat., La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, 1977, pl. 55.

M. Ray, Photographs by Man Ray: 105 Works, New York, 1979, p. 44.

J.-H. Martin, Man Ray Photographe, exh. cat., Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1981, p. 106, no. 109.

Man Ray: Photographs, exh. cat., Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, New York, 1982, p. 106 (negative pair illustrated, pl. 109-110).

Perpetual Motif: The Art of Man Ray, exh. cat., National Museum of Art, Washington, D.C., 1988, p. 192, pl. 164.

M. Ray, Man Ray: 1890-1976, Taco, Berlin, 1989, p. 17.

Man Ray in Fashion, exh. cat., International Center of Photography, New York, 1990, p. 62.

Chadwick, “Fetishizing Fashion/Fetishizing Culture” in Oxford Art Journal, vol. 18, no. 2, 1995, pp. 3-17.

Man Ray: 1890-1976, exh. cat., Ronny Van de Velde, Ghent, 1995, pp. 40-41, pl. 52.

Man Ray, exh. cat., Serpentine Gallery, London, 1995, fig. 6.

Man Ray: 1890-1976 Photographien, exh. cat., KunstHaus Wien, Munich, 1996, pp. 16-17 and 24-25, pls. 2a, 1b, 24-25 and on the cover.

Man Ray: Paris, LA, exh. cat., Track 16 and Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, 1996, p. 58.

Man Ray: La Photographie à L'Envers, exh. cat., Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1998, pp. 12-15.

Man Ray: Photography and its Double, exh. cat., Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, California, 1998, pp. 12 and 15 (negative pair illustrated).

Man Ray, Man Ray: 1890-1976, Taschen, Cologne, 2000, pp. 38-39 (negative pair illustrated).

Koetzle, Photo Icons: Petite histoire de la photo, 1827-1926, Cologne, 2002, pp. 180-185.

Castant, Noire et blanche de Man Ray, Paris, 2003.

Grossman and Manford, “Unmasking Man Ray's Noire et blanche” in American Art, vol. 20, no. 2, summer 2006, pp. 134-147.

Man Ray: Unconcerned but not Indifferent, exh. cat., MAN Museo d'arte della Provincia di Nuoro, Milan, 2008, pp. 19 and 170-171 (negative pair illustrated).

Man Ray, exh. cat., Museo d'arte della Svizzera Italiana, Milano, 2011, p. 124, pl. 102.

Man Ray Portraits, exh. cat., National Portrait Gallery London, 2013, p. 83, pl. 55.

Man Ray: Human Equations, exh. cat., The Phillips Collection, Ostifildern, 2015, p. 148 (negative pair illustrated, figs. 126-127).

Man Ray: 1890-1976, Cologne, 2017, pp. 38-39 (negative pair illustrated).
Artist:Man Ray (1890 - 1976)
Genre:Portrait
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
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