Man Ray (1890-1976)

Five portraits, each mounted on card, the cards each signed and dated in pencil below the images.

"Man Ray is my revered teacher, and I am proud when he tells me that I am following in his footsteps as a photographer. This was not so simple as he took the attitude of a Renaissance master, that his apprentices should find out the secrets of his magic if they could."  Focus on Art, Photographs by Florence Homolka, Obolensky, New York, 1962, p. 116.

Florence Homolka was a friend of Man Ray's around the time of his double wedding (shared with Max Ernst) in 1946, and took a famous quadruple portait of the two couples at that time.