ID 949552
Lot 18 | MAN RAY (1890–1976)
Estimate value
$ 300 000 – 500 000
Untitled (Solarized Nude, Paris), 1929
signed in ink (recto); variously annotated and numbered in pencil (verso)
gelatin silver print
image/sheet: 11 1/4 x 8 7/8 in. (28.5 x 22.5 cm.)
Provenance
Private collection, Europe
Anon. sale; Christie's, New York, 18 April 2001, lot 217
Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the late owner, 2006
Literature
Man Ray, Man Ray: Photographs 1920-1934, James Thrall Soby, Hartford, 1934, pl. 33.
Exhibition catalogue, Man Ray, L'Immagine Fotografica, La Biennale di Venezia, Venezia, 1977, pl. 117.
Man Ray, Photographs by Man Ray: 105 Works, 1920-1934, Dover Publications, New York, 1979, p. 33.
Man Ray, Man Ray: 1890-1976, Taco, Berlin, 1989, p. 29.
Exhibition catalogue, Man Ray: La Photographie à L'Envers, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1998, p. 152.
Exhibition catalogue, Man Ray: Photography and its Double, Laurence King, London, 1998, p. 152.
Exhibition catalogue, Photographies de Man Ray, Tokyo, 2002, pl. 131, p. 105 (uncropped variant).
Exhibition catalogue, Man Ray and L. Fritz Gruber: Years of Friendship 1956-1976, Steidl Thames & Hudson, Göttingen, 2008, p. 125.
Exhibition catalogue, Man Ray, Skira, 2011, pl. 133, p. 134 (uncropped variant).
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| Artist: | Man Ray (1890 - 1976) |
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| Applied technique: | Gelatin silver print |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Genre: | Portrait |
| Auction house category: | Photography |
| Artist: | Man Ray (1890 - 1976) |
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| Applied technique: | Gelatin silver print |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Genre: | Portrait |
| Auction house category: | Photography |
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