Photographs
Photographs
Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer
Enigme II
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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
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