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Property of an Important Private Collector

Man Ray

Noire et blanche

Estimate

1,500,000 - 2,000,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property of an Important Private Collector

Man Ray 

1890 - 1976


Noire et blanche  

inscribed Original and annotated Haut and Page 44 by the photographer in pencil, and with his 31 bis, Rue Campagne Première, Paris XIVe (Manford M6) studio stamp and reproduction interdite (Manford M14) stamp, and various inscriptions and reduction notations in pencil and ink (on the reverse)

gelatin silver print

17.5 by 22.8 cm. 6⅞ by 9 in.

Executed in 1926, printed no later than 1935.

Private Collection

Sotheby's Belgravia, 22 March 1978, lot 261

Private Collection

Christie's East, 11 and 12 November 1980, lot 304

Collection of Margaret W. Weston (acquired from the above)

Sotheby’s New York, Photographs from the Private Collection of Margaret W. Weston, 25 April 2007, lot 16

Acquired from the above in 2007 with Hamiltons Gallery, London, as agent by the present owner

Passion and Precision: Photographs from the Collection of Margaret W. Weston, Monterey Museum of Art 2003, in conjunction with the exhibition, p. 18, illustrated (this print)


Other prints of this image (variant croppings):

‘Visage de Nacre et Masque d’Ébène,’ Vogue Paris, vol. 7, no. 5, 1 May 1926, p. 37, illustrated

‘Man Ray,’ Variétés, vol. 1, no. 3, 15 July-December 1928, p. 154, illustrated

‘Les Photographies de Man Ray,’ Art et Décoration, vol. 54, no. 5, July-December 1928, pp. 154-60, illustrated

Man Ray: Photographs, 1920-1934, Hartford and Paris 1934, p. 44, illustrated

Man Ray, Self Portrait, Boston 1963, p. 118, illustrated

Man Ray: Photographs, 1920-1934, New York 1975, pl. 44, illustrated

Man Ray: Inventionen und Interpretationen, Frankfurt am Main 1979, p. 162, illustrated

Photographs by Man Ray: 105 Works, New York 1979, p. 44, illustrated

Janus, Man Ray: The Photographic Image, New York 1980, pl. 55, illustrated

Jean-Hubert Martin, Man Ray Photographe, Musée national d'art moderne, Philippe Sers éditeur, Paris 1982, p. 106, illustrated

Rosalind Krauss and Jane Livingston, L'Amour Fou: Photography & Surrealism, Washington, D. C.: The Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1985 (in conjunction with the exhibition), p. 138, illustrated

Perpetual Motif: The Art of Man Ray, Washington, D. C: National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution 1988, in conjunction with the exhibition, pl. 164, illustrated

Merry Foresta and Willis Hartshorn, Man Ray: In Fashion, New York: International Center of Photography 1990 (in conjunction with the Man Ray/Bazaar Years: A Fashion Retrospective exhibition), p. 62, illustrated

Klaus Honnef, Man Ray: Fotografien 1919 - 1949 Neues wie Vertrautes, Ostfildern-Ruit 1994, p. 36, illustrated

Man Ray, 1890-1976, Ghent and New York 1994, pp. 40-1, illustrated

Rudolf Kicken, ed., Man Ray: 1890-1976 Photographien, KunstHausWien 1996, cover and pls. 24-5, illustrated

Marina Vanci-Perahim, Great Modern Masters: Man Ray, New York 1997, p. 4, illustrated

Janus, Man Ray, Milan 1998, p. 86, illustrated

Emmanuelle de l'Ecotais and Alain Sayag, eds., Man Ray: Photography and Its Double, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou 1998 (in conjunction with the exhibition), p. 12, illustrated

Man Ray: Paris Photographs, 1920-1934, New York 2000, cover and pl. 44, illustrated

Manfred Heiting, ed., Man Ray: 1890-1976, Köln 2000, p. 39, illustrated

Chorus of Light: Photographs from the Sir Elton John Collection, Atlanta: High Museum of Art, 2000 (in conjunction with the exhibition), p. 76, illustrated

Cecilia Casorati, Man Ray Fotografie / Photographs 1925-1955, Milan 2001, pp. 28-9, illustrated

Herbert R. Lottman, Man Ray's Montparnasse, New York 2001, p. 57, illustrated

Charlotte Benton, Tim Benton, and Ghislaine Wood, Art Deco, 1910-1939, London, Victoria and Albert Museum 2003, pp. 292-93

Alexandre Castant, Noire et blanche de Man Ray, Paris 2003, cover and p. 2, illustrated

Valerio Dehó, ed., Man Ray Women, Bologna 2005, p. 53, illustrated

Wendy A. Grossman and Steven Manford, ‘Unmasking Man Ray's Noire et blanche,‘ American Art, vol. 20, no. 2, Summer 2006, pp. 134-47, illustrated

Jennifer Mundy, ed., Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia, London 2008, pp. 112-13, illustrated

Mason Klein, Alias Man Ray, New York, 2009, p. 119

Man Ray, Museo d'Arte Della Citta di Lugano 2011, p. 102, illustrated

Terence Pepper, Man Ray Portraits, New Haven 2013, pl. 55, illustrated

Exh. Cat, Washington, D. C., The Phillips Collection, Man Ray: Human Equations, February - May 2015, p. 148, illustrated

Emmanuelle de l'Ecotais and Katherine Ware, Man Ray: 1890-1976, Cologne 2017, pp. 38-9, illustrated

Frederique van Reij, ‘Man Ray’s Portrait of Peggy Guggenheim,’ Rijksmuseum Studies in Photography, vol. 16, 2017, pp. 50-51, illustrated

Michael R. Taylor, Man Ray: The Paris Years, Richmond 2021, p. 138, illustrated