Man Ray
Leda and the Swan
Signed with the initials MR and dated 40 (lower right)
Watercolor on paper
10 by 14 in.; 25.5 by 35.3 cm
Executed in 1940.
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Signed with the initials MR and dated 40 (lower right)
10 by 14 in.; 25.5 by 35.3 cm
Provenance
The artist
Naomi and David Savage
Lourie Campbell Bates (by descent)
Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, New York
Elise and Charles Brown, Naples, Florida
Private Collection, New York
Vito Schnabel Gallery, New York
Exhibition
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Man Ray, 1966, no. 228
New York, André Emmerich Gallery, Man Ray: An American Surrealist Vision, 1997, no. 36
New York, Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, Man Ray in America, Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture and Photographs from the New York, Ridgefield (1912-21) and Hollywood (1940-50) Years, 2001-02, pl. 34, illustrated in color p. 46
New York, Di Donna Galleries, Enigma and Desire: Man Ray Paintings, 2019, pp. 98 & 203, illustrated in color p. 99
Literature
Teruo Ishihara, ed., Man Ray Equations: Catalogue Raisonné, Kyoto, 1999, no. 215, illustrated p. 67