Classic Photographs

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MAN RAY | 'ELECTRICITÉ'

Auction Closed

October 3, 04:15 PM GMT

Estimate

25,000 - 35,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

MAN RAY

1890-1976

'ELECTRICITÉ'


(Paris: La Compagnie Parisienne de Distribution d’Electricité, 1931, an edition of 500), a portfolio of 10 photogravures after Rayographs by Man Ray, each signed in the negative, framed, 1931; together with the 6-page printed introductory text by Pierre Bost and 7 of the original individual translucent lettered wrappers. Folio, printed patterned wrapper with flaps, the colophon printed inside the rear wrapper, with edition number '399' typed, in a glassine dust jacket, the whole in a slipcase with printed label, no. 399 from an edition of 500

Each 10¼ by 8 in. (26 by 20.3 cm.) or the reverse

Alan Koppel Gallery, Chicago, circa 2000