Lot 169
  • 169

Man Ray

Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 EUR
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Description

  • Man Ray
  • Ava Gardner (en costume pour le film Pandora and the Flying Dutchman), 1950
  • Silver print. Signed, titled and dated in pencil at lower right on the card and stamped 'Man Ray Paris' on the reverse.
  • 35,5 x 27,9 cm, 14 x 11 in.
Group of two photographs

Ava Gardner
Silver gelatin print
11w x 13 3/4h inches

Estimate: €8,000 - 12,000

Exhibited

West Palm Beach, 1994-95, no. 115
Santa Monica, 1996-97
Madrid, Paris & Berlin, 2007-10, p. 187
Tokyo, 2010, no. 210
Londres, 2013, p. 170

Literature

Tokyo, 1990-91, vol. 1, p. 105 (other cropping)
Anvers, 1994, fig. 269
Tokyo, 1996-97, p. 101 (other cropping)
Tokyo, 1998, no. 31
Tokyo, 2002, p. 173
Man Ray, 2009, p. 316 (this print)
Man Ray Portraits, 2010, p. 272 (variant)

Condition

This print is in very good general condition. The corners and the lower edge are slightly worn and with a very light handling mark near the right edge at the centre visible in raking light only.
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