Man Ray
Autoportrait
Estimate
35,000 - 45,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Man Ray
1890 - 1976
Autoportrait
bronze, eyeglasses and newspaper assembled in a wooden box
inscribed Man Ray, numbered 1/5 and with the foundry mark C. Valsuani cire perdue (on the bronze); signed Man Ray, titled, dated 1933 and numbered 1/3 (on the wooden box)
35.5 by 21 by 12.2 cm. 14 by 8¼ by 4⅞ in.
Conceived in 1932 and created by Arturo Schwarz, Milan in 1969 in an edition of 3. The bronze element cast by the Valsuani Foundry, Paris in the late 1960s in an edition of 5.
Andrew Strauss and Timothy Baum of the Man Ray Expertise Committee have confirmed the authenticity of this work under reference 00534-O-2025 and that the edition of this work will be included in the Catalogue of Objects & Sculpture of Man Ray, currently in preparation.
Formerly in the collection of Juliet Man Ray.
Estate of the artist
Juliet Man Ray, Paris (the artist's widow; acquired from the above)
The Estate of Juliet Man Ray
Sotheby's, London, Man Ray Sale, Part II, 23 March 1995, lot 129 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner
Janus, Man Ray, Milan, 1973, no. 35, n.p., another version illustrated
Roland Penrose, Man Ray, London, 1975, no. 66, n.p., another version illustrated
Arturo Schwarz, Man Ray The Rigour of Imagination, London, 1977, no. 242, p. 143, another version illustrated
Gerry Dryansky, "Historic Houses: The Man Ray Studio," Architectural Digest, November 1982, p. 183, another cast illustrated in colour
Jean-Hubert Martin, ed., Man Ray, Objets de mon affection, Paris, 1983, no. 44, p. 53, another version illustrated; p. 144, listed
Clemence de Roch, "Man Ray's Muse," Tatler, London, September 1988, p. 127, photograph of the work illustrated
Janus, Man Ray Œuvres 1909-1972, Paris, 1990, no. 90, n.p., another version illustrated
Paris, Galerie du Dragon, L'object surréaliste, 1931-1937, 1979, no. 18, n.p., illustrated
Paris, Galerie Marion Meyer, Man Ray Assemblages, 1990, no. 12, n.p., illustrated
Deauville, Casino de Deauville, Man Ray Cinéma: Festival du Cinéma, 1993, n.n.
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