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Materials:

flush-mounted on board

Size Notes:

image/sheet/flush mount: 19 x 14 3?4 in. (48.5 x 37.5 cm.)

Description:

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Exhibited:

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Man Ray: L'Oeuvre Photographique, May-June 1962. New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Dada, Surrealism and their Heritage, March-June 1968. New York, Cordier & Eckstrom, Man Ray: A Selection of Paintings, 1970. Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen and Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Man Ray, July 1971-June 1972. London, Institute of Contemporary Art, Man Ray, April-June 1975. The New York Cultural Center, Man Ray: Inventor/Painter/Poet, December 1974-August 1975. New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Dada and New York, May-July 1979. Paris, Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Man Ray, 1982. Washington D.C., National Museum of American Art; Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art; Houston, The Menil Collection and Philadelphia Museum of Art, Perpetual Motif: The Art of Man Ray, December 1988-February 1989, p. 317 (illustrated, pl. 262). London, Royal Academy of Arts, The Art of Photography, September-December 1989. Washington D.C., The Phillips Collection, Americans in Paris: Man Ray, Gerald Murphy, Stuart Davis, Alexander Calder, April-August 1996. New York, Andre Emmerich Gallery, Man Ray: An American Surrealist Vision, November-December 1997. Miami, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sweet Dreams and Nightmares: Dada and Surrealism from the Rosalind and Melvin Jacobs Collection, March-May 2000 (illustrated on the cover and illustrated in color on the frontispiece). New York, Zabriskie Gallery, Kiki of Montparnasse, April-May 2002. New York, Pace/MacGill Gallery, The Long Arm of Coincidence: Selections from the Rosalind and Melvin Jacobs Collection, April-May 2009 (illustrated). New York, The Museum of Modern Art, The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture 1839 to Today, August-November 2010.

Literature:

A. Breton, Littérature, June 1924 (Breton version illustrated on the frontispiece). A. Schwarz, Man Ray: The Rigour of Imagination, New York, 1977, p. 255 (illustrated, pl. 415). J.-H. Martin, Man Ray Photographs, New York, 1982, p. 16 (illustrated, pl. 4). Man Ray, New York, 1995, p. 46 (illustrated, pl. 48). R. Kicken, Man Ray, Munich, 1996 (illustrated, pl. 53). A. Sayag and E. de l'Ecotais, ed., Man Ray: Photography and its Double, Corte Madera, 1998, p. 137 (illustrated). K. Ware, Man Ray In Focus, exh. cat., The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 1998, p. 40 (illustrated, pl. 17). E. de l'Ecotais, Man Ray, Cologne, 2000, p. 43 (illustrated). M. Klein, Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention, exh. cat., The Jewish Museum, New York, 2009, p. 87 (illustrated, fig. 84). W. Grossman and E. Sebline, ed., Man Ray: Human Equations, Ostfildern, 2015, p. 179 (illustrated, fig. 166).

Provenance:

Acquired from the artist by the late owners, 1962.