Man Ray

signed and numbered 46/500 on the label inside, executed in 1972, edition Galerie Alexandre Iolas, Paris, white marble
(siglato e numerato 46/500 sull'etichetta all'interno, eseguito nel 1972, edizione Galerie Alexandre Iolas, Parigi, marmo bianco)

4 elements
(4 elementi)

Private Collection
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2000 ca. (Ivi acquistato dall'attuale proprietario nel 2000 circa)

Madrid, Paris, Berlin, Atelier Man Ray - Unconcerned but not indifferent, 2007-10, p. 61, illustrated another exemplar (illustrato un altro esemplare)
Tokyo, National Art Center & Osaka: National Museum of Art, Man Ray: Unconcerned but not indifferent, 2010, p. 34, illustrated another exemplar (illustrato un altro esemplare)

Jean-Hubert Martin, Rosalind Krauss, Brigitte Hermann, Man Ray: Objets de mon affection, Sculptures et Objets, Catalogue Raisonné, Paris 1983, n. 23; silver edition p. 36, illustrated another exemplar (illustrato un altro esemplare)
Kishin Shinoyama, Man Ray's Atelier, Art Vivant, Tokyo 1985, p. 8, illustrated another exemplar (illustrato un altro esemplare)
Man Ray - La costruzione dei sensi, exh. cat. Turin, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, 1995-6, p. 178, illustrated another exemplar (illustrato un altro esemplare)
Man Ray, exh. cat. Halmstad, Mjelby Konstmuseum, 2013, p. 46, illustrated another exemplar (illustrato un altro esemplare)

This work is in very good overall condition. There are dispersed evidences of dust. (L'OPERA E' IN CONDIZIONI CONSERVATIVE MOLTO BUONE. VI SONO RESIDUI DI SPORCO SPARSI.)
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