MAN RAY

Model in Lucien Lelong gown, seated in wheelbarrow by Oscar Dominguez

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MAN RAY
Model in Lucien Lelong gown, seated in wheelbarrow by Oscar Dominguez
Gelatin silver print. 1937/1950s. Credit, title, date in an unknown hand in pencil and ink, annotated Extrait de "Histoire de la Peinture Surréaliste par Marcel Jean in pencil on the verso.
6 7/8 x 8 1/8in. (17.5 x 20.7cm.)

Provenance

From the artist;
to Marcel Jean;
to the present owner.

Literature

See: Jean, Histoire de la peinture surréaliste, p. 248; Man Ray: Inventionen und Interpretationen, Frankfurt, 1979, p. 161, no. 134; Man Ray Selbstporträt, Munich, 1983, p. 129, no. 32.

Lot Essay

This print and that in lot 80 originate from the collection of the Surrealist painter Marcel Jean. Jean was a close friend of the Spanish Surrealist Oscar Dominquez, the designer of the wheelbarrow and many of Dominquez's works from 1937 were realized in Jean's studio.

A variant of this image was reproduced in the important Surrealist journal Minotaure, no. 10, 1937, p. 44.

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