Property from a Private Collection, Europe
Man Ray
Autoportrait
Lot Closed
March 26, 12:36 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Collection, Europe
Man Ray
1890 - 1976
Autoportrait
inscribed with the artist's monogram and numbered 4/8
bronze
Height: 29.5cm., 11⅝in.
Cast in bronze by the Fratelli Barberis Foundry and published by Il Fauno, Turin in 1971 in an edition of 8 plus 2 artist's proofs.
Andrew Strauss and Timothy Baum of the Man Ray Expertise Committee have confirmed the authenticity of this work and that the edition of this work will be included in the Catalogue of Objects & Sculptures of Man Ray, currently in preparation.
Private Collection (acquired from the artist. Sold: Sotheby's, London, 27 March 1985, lot 200.ii)
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner
Janus, Man Ray, Milan, 1973, n.n., another cast illustrated pl. 143
This model comes from a series of 10 bronzes executed in 1971 after a set of drawings that Man Ray executed for Les mains libres, a book of poems by Paul Eluard published in 1937. This self-portrait depicts Man Ray in 1932, aged forty-two.
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