Man Ray

The artist

Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, gifted from the above

Harold and Virginia Knapik, circa 1970, gifted from the above

Private Collection, gifted from the above, circa 1971

Clément Chéroux, ed., Man Ray Portraits, Munich, 2011, p. 241, illustrated

Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas bought a Standard White Poodle from a dog show in Paris and named the fashionable dog Basket. When their beloved dog died in 1937, the pair got another Standard Poodle who they named Basket II.