Classic Photographs
Classic Photographs
Photographs from the Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Collection
Man Ray
Wallis Simpson
Lot Closed
October 5, 02:15 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Man Ray
1890 - 1976
Wallis Simpson
gelatin silver print, tipped to a paper mount, signed and annotated 'Paris' in pencil on the mount, the photographer's 'Man Ray - 8 rue du Val-de-Grâce, Paris 5e - France, Danton 92-25' studio stamp (Manford M9) on the reverse, framed, 1935
image: 9 ⅛ by 7 in. (23.2 by 17.8 cm.)
frame: 18 by 15 ½ in. (45.7 by 39.4 cm.)
Collection of Wallis Simpson, The Duchess of Windsor
Private European collection
Private collection, New York
Ann Yaffe Phillips Fine Art, New York, 2004
Terence Pepper, Man Ray Portraits (New Haven, 2013), pl. 118 (the full negative)
cf. Clément Chéroux, ed., Man Ray. Portraits. Paris--Hollywood--Paris (Munich, 2011), p. 236