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Property from an Important Corporate Collection

Man Ray

All's Well That Ends Well

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November 21, 03:30 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 250,000 USD

Bid

110,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important Corporate Collection

Man Ray

1890 - 1976


All's Well That Ends Well

signed Man Ray and dated 1948 (lower right)

oil on canvas

16 ⅛ by 19 ⅞ in.

41 by 50.5 cm.

Executed in Hollywood in 1948. 


Andrew Strauss and Timothy Baum of the Man Ray Expertise Committee have confirmed the authenticity of this work under reference 00338-P-2024 and that this work will be included in the Catalogue of Paintings of Man Ray, currently in preparation.

Estate of the artist

Juliet Man Ray, Los Angeles and Paris (the artist’s wife) 

Galerie 1900-2000, Paris (acquired by 1988)

Gérard Arigoni, Paris

Binoche, Paris, 19 March 1997, lot 114 

Marion Meyer, Paris (acquired at the above sale)

Christie’s, New York, 11 April 2024, lot 436 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Beverly Hills, The Copley Galleries, Man Ray, 1948-49, no. 16

Paris, Galerie Furstenberg, Exposition de Peintures de Man Ray, 1954, no. 14.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Man Ray, 1966, no. 87

New York, The New York Cultural Centre; London, The Institute of Contemporary Arts and Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Man Ray, Inventor, Painter, Poet, 1974-75, no. 167, illustrated 

Frankfurt, Kunstverein and Bâle, Kunsthalle, Man Ray, Inventionen und Interpretationen, 1979-80, no. 44, p. 86, illustrated 

Paris, Galerie 1900-2000, Man Ray, Peintures et dessins provenant de l’atelier, 1988, no. 8, p. 21, illustrated 

Tokyo, The Bunkamura Museum of Art; Takamatsu, Takamatsu City Museum of Art; Ibaraki, Tsukuba Museum of Art; Okayama, The Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art; Akita, Akita Senshu Museum of Art and Itami, City Museum of Art, Man Ray et ses amis, 1991-92, no. 113, p. 74, illustrated in color; p. 138

León, Instituto Leonés de Cultura, Sala provincia, Man Ray, 1996, p. 30, illustrated in color; p. 81 

New York, André Emmerich Gallery, Man Ray, An American Surrealist Vision, 1997, no. 12

Fukui, Fine Arts Museum; Okazaki, Mindscape Museum; Saitama, The Museum of Modern Art; Yamanashi, Prefectural Museum of Modern Art et Tokushima, Modern Art Museum, Man Ray, I am an Enigma, 2004-05, no. 223, P. 152, illustrated in color; p. 254

Malaga, Fundación Pablo Picasso-Museo Casa Natal,

Man Ray, Yo soy un enigma, 2006, pp. 85 and 248, illustrated in color 

Pontevedra, Centro Social Caixanova, Man Ray, 2009, p. 14, illustrated in color

Bogota, Museo de Arte Banco de la República,

Man Ray, Colección Marion Meyer

, 2010-11, p. 95, illustrated in color

Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection; Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptoteket and Jerusalem, The Israel Museum, Man Ray, Human Equations, A Journey from Mathematics to Shakespeare, 2015-16, pp. 205 and 225

Paris, La Manufacture de l'image, Géométrie dans l'espace, La Topographie de l'art, 2017

Vienna, Bank Austria Kunstforum, Man Ray, 2018, p. 137, illustrated in color; p. 233 

Albi, Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Man Ray, Vues de l'esprit, 2018-19, p. 30, illustrated; p. 42

Paris, Galerie Cahiers d'art, Man Ray, Peintures et objects, 2022

Rouen, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nadja, un itinéraire surréaliste, 2022, pp. 158-59, illustrated in color

Hyères, Musée des Cultures et du Paysage, Man Ray, Le Beau Temps, 2023, p. 41, illustrated in color; p. 156

Arturo Schwarz, Man Ray, The Rigour of Imagination, London, 1977, no. 132, p. 363, illustrated; p. 99

Richard Studing, Shakespeare in American Painting, A Catalogue from the late Eighteenth Century to the Present, London, 1993, no. 621, p. 110