Man Ray

Portrait of Marcel Duchamp

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April 10, 03:43 PM GMT

Estimate

25,000 - 35,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer

Man Ray

1890 - 1976

Portrait of Marcel Duchamp

gelatin silver print, signed and dated in ink on the image, flush-mounted, a Paris customs stamp on the reverse, framed, accompanied by William N. Copley Collection labels, James Bourlet & Sons, and other framing labels

image: 9⅞ by 7⅞ in. (25.1 by 20 cm.)

frame: 13½ by 11½ in. (34.3 by 29.2 cm.)

Executed in 1949.

Gift of the photographer to artist Max Ernst

Collection of William N. Copley, Los Angeles/New York

Acquired from the above in the 1990s by the present owner

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Beyond Real: Surrealist Photography and Sculpture from Bay Area Collections, March – May 2006

Alisa Carroll, Art House: The Collaboration of Chara Schreyer & Gary Hutton (New York, 2016), pp. 5, 102, 218 and 220 (installed in the Four Seasons, San Francisco)

Douglas Fogle and Hannake Skerath, eds., Making Strange: The Chara Schreyer Collection (New York, 2021), p. 281 and 416