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Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer

Man Ray

Enigme II

Lot Closed

April 10, 03:46 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer

Man Ray

1890 - 1976

Enigme II


gelatin silver print, signed in ink on the image, titled and dated in pencil and with annotations in pencil and red ink on the reverse, framed, a Tate Museum exhibition label on the reverse

image: 8¼ by 9 in. (20.6 by 22.9 cm.)

frame: 18¾ by 18¼ in. (47.6 by 46.4 cm.)

Executed in 1935.

The photographer

Private collection (acquired from the above)

Christie's, New York, 18 April 2001, Sale 9618, Lot 88

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Man Ray: Photographs (New York, 1975), p. 135

Man Ray: L’occhio e il suo doppio (Rome, 1975), p. 113

Arturo Schwarz, Man Ray: The Rigour of Imagination (New York, 1977), p. 273

Janus, ed., Man Ray: The Photographic Image (New York, 1980), pl. 138, p. 204

Jan Ceuleers, ed., Man Ray, 1890-1976 (Ghent, 1994), p. 32

Douglas Fogle and Hannake Skerath, eds., Making Strange: The Chara Schreyer Collection (New York, 2021), pp. 33 and 416

Paris and New York, Alexander Iolas, Man Ray, 1974

Rome, Pallazo delle Esposizioni, Man Ray: L'occhio e il suo doppio, 1975

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Beyond Real: Surrealist Photography and Sculpture from Bay Area Collections, March – May 2006

London, Tate Modern, Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia, February – May 2008