Man Ray
Gertrude Stein and Picasso's Portrait
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Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
Bid
10,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Man Ray
1890 - 1976
Gertrude Stein and Picasso's Portrait
gelatin silver print, signed, titled, dated and annotated 'bon' in pencil on the reverse, framed, The Jewish Museum and the National Museum of American Art exhibition labels on the reverse
image: 3¾ by 4¾ in. (9.5 by 12 cm.)
frame: 14¼ by 11¼ in. (36.2 by 28.6 cm.)
Executed in 1922.
The photographer to Arturo Schwarz, Milan
Il Fauno Galleria (Luciano Anselmino), Turin
Private collection, Massachusetts, acquired from the above in 1972
Sotheby's New York, 12 May 1986, Sale 5453, Lot 287
Acquired from the above by the present owners
Washington, D. C., National Museum of American Art, Perpetual Motif: The Art of Man Ray, December 1988 - February 1989, and traveling thereafter to:
Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, March - May 1989
Houston, The Menil Collection, June - September 1989
Philadelphia Museum of Art, October 1989 - January 1990
Washington, D. C., National Portrait Gallery, Group Portrait: The First American Avant-Garde, May - October 1991
New York, The Jewish Museum, Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention, November 2009 - March 2010
Washington, D. C., National Portrait Gallery, Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories, October 2011 - January 2012
May Ray: The Photographic Image (Venice Biennale, 1976) no. 28, p. 185
Perpetual Motif: The Art of Man Ray (Washington, D. C: National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1988), pl. 115 (this print)
Clément Chéroux, ed., Man Ray Portraits (Munich, 2011), p. 241
Gertrude Stein extraordinary portraits: Man Ray, Van Vechten, Cecil Beaton (Paris: Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 2011), p. 17
Gertrude Stein et Pablo Picasso: L’invention du langage (Paris: Musée du Luxembourg, 2023), p. 1 (this print)
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