Lot 31
  • 31

Man Ray

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 EUR
bidding is closed

Description

  • Man Ray
  • 'Paul Eluard', deux portraits, vers 1933
  • photograph
Deux tirages argentiques d'époque. Titrés P. Eluard au crayon, l'un daté 1933 et avec le tampon 'Man Ray 31bis, rue Campagne Première Paris' (Manford M3) au verso, l'autre avec des indications de publication: Page 72 - hommes - à retourner et avec la mention Original au crayon de la main de l'artiste.

Provenance

Ader Picard Tajan Paris, Bibliothèque du Professeur Millot: Litérature contemporaine, Surréalisme, 15 juin 1991, lot 221

Literature

Man Ray, Photographs 1920 - 1934, Hartford, James Thrall Soby, 1934, ill. p. 72 (inversé).

Condition

These two silver prints are in excellent condition. The larger print has a very light handling fold in the lower left quadrant visible in raking light only, and the lower right quadrant has what appears to be a very light trace of discolouration that is barely visible.
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