Photographs
Photographs
Man Ray
Solarized Nude Portrait
Lot Closed
April 13, 07:34 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Man Ray
1890 - 1976
Solarized Nude Portrait
a unique object, gelatin silver print accentuated with gouache and ink, the photographer's copyright and '8, rue du Val-de-Grace' studio stamps (Manford 8 and 13) and annotations in pencil on the reverse, framed, circa 1933, printed before 1937
image: 11 ¾ by 9 in. (29.8 by 22.9 cm.)
frame: 24 ½ by 21 in. (62.2 by 53.3 cm.)
Sotheby's New York, 7 April 1998, Sale 7112, Lot 282
Photographie 1937 (Paris: Arts et Métiers Graphiques, 1937) (this print)
cf. Man Ray, Carte Varie e Variabili (Milan, 1983), fig. 194
Emmanuelle de l’Ecotais and Alain Sayag, eds., Man Ray: Photography and Its Double (Paris: Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, 1998), p. 147
Vaerio Dehó, ed., Man Ray Women (Bologna, 2005), p. 95 (variant cropping)
Man Ray (Milan, 2011), figs. 159 and 160 (variant cropping)