Man Ray

warm-toned, solarized, signed and dated in ink on the image, mounted, framed, Buhl Collection and Guggenheim Museum exhibition labels on the reverse, 1949

Gift of the photographer to the sitter

Christie's New York, 20 October 1994, Sale 7958, Lot 392

New York, Guggenheim Museum, Speaking with Hands: Photographs from The Buhl Collection, June - September 2004, and 4 other international venues through 2007 (see Appendix 1)

West Palm Beach, Norton Museum of Art, A Show of Hands: Photographs and Sculpture from the Buhl Collection, January - March 2008

Seoul, South Korea, Daelim Contemporary Art Museum, Speaking with Hands: Photographs from The Buhl Collection (Asian tour), March - May 2009, and 2 other Asian venues through 2011 (see Appendix 1)

Jennifer Blessing, Speaking with Hands: Photographs from The Buhl Collection (Guggenheim Foundation, 2004), pp. 103 and 241 (this print)

Jean-Hubert Martin, Man Ray: Photographs (Thames and Hudson, 1982), p.160 (variant cropping and orientation)

This print is on double-weight warm-toned paper with a matte surface. Close examination in raking light reveals some of the photographer's original retouching. There is very minor intermittent wear on the print's edges. None of these issues detracts from the overwhelmingly fine appearance of this print.
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