Man Ray
By Itself I
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Man Ray
1890 - 1976
By Itself I
inscribed man Ray, numbered 9/9 and with the foundry mark F.N.B. Bruxelles (on the base); inscribed MAN. RAY., titled and dated 1918. (on the back)
bronze
height (including base): 43.2 cm. 17 in.
Conceived in wood in 1918; this example cast in bronze by Fonderie Nationale de Bronzes, Brussels in 1966. This work is number 9 from an edition of 9 plus artist's proofs.
Andrew Strauss and Timothy Baum of the Man Ray Expertise Committee have confirmed the authenticity of this work under reference 00533-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 Arturo Schwarz.
Arturo Schwarz, Milan
Private Collection, Switzerland
Sotheby's, London, Dada Art, 4 December 1985, lot 208 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner
Marcel Zerbib, Man Ray, Objets de mon affection, Paris, 1968, n.n., n.p., another cast illustrated
Man Ray, Oggetti d'affezione, Milan, 1970, no. 3, n.p., wooden version illustrated
Roland Penrose, Man Ray, London, 1975, no. 27, n.p., another cast illustrated
Arturo Schwarz, Man Ray The Rigour of Imagination, London, 1977, no. 248, p. 145, wooden version illustrated
Gerry Dryansky, "Historic Houses: The Man Ray Studio," Architectural Digest, November 1982, p. 180, another cast illustrated in colour
Jean-Hubert Martin, ed., Man Ray, Objets de mon affection, Paris, 1983, no. 6, p. 23, , wooden version illustrated; p. 139, listed
Janus, Man Ray, Milan, 1998, p. 42, wooden version illustrated
Caracas, Museo de Arte Contemporaea de Caracas, El Espíritu Dada, 1915-1925, 1980-81, n.n., p. 95, illustrated (titled Solo, I)
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