Man Ray

8vo (10 x 6 1/2 in.; 257 x 165 mm). 12 black and white photographs; loose as issued in original blue paper portfolio printed in black, original black paper jacket with die-cut window. Inscribed by the artist on title page: "A mon amie Lise, affectueusement. Man Ray, juin 1937". Celluloid dust jacket. Some minor foxing on title page, otherwise in very good condition. 

Lise Deharme (inscription)

The Photobook, I, pp.108-109.

First edition inscribed by Man Ray to Lise Deharme.

Association copy between the photograph and one of the Surrealist muse Lise Deharme, who collaborated with the Surrealism movement since the beginning of the 1930's. 
Deharme was a prolific writer. She collaborated with Joan Miro for his first "artist book" Il etait une petite Pie in 1928. Her short-lived Surrealist review, Le Phare de Neuilly (1933), featured writing by avant-garde figures of the day, such as D. H. Lawrence and Jacques Lacan, and was illustrated with photographs by Man Ray, Brassaï, and Dora Maar, among others. Two portraits of Lise by Man Ray are known: La Dame de Pique (Queen of Spades) and Rien dans le puit (Portrait de Lise Deharme)