Lot 95
95
MAN RAY (1890-1976)
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MAN RAY (1890-1976)

Ostrich egg composition, c.1965

Details
MAN RAY (1890-1976)
Ostrich egg composition, c.1965
gelatin silver print with collage on artist's mount
signed in ink on recto
5½ x 4½in. (14 x 11.4cm.) artist frame
Provenance
With Galerie Maeght, Paris;
to the present owner, c.1975.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

This image relates to Man Ray's Ostrich Egg, 19441; it appears to be a tight crop of the latter's upper right curve. However, the glittering black sandpaper mount and the collaged stamp both relate to works from the 1960s: Etoile de verre, 1965 was executed on similar paper; the same patterned stamp appears on a collaged matchbox from the early 1960s (Sotheby's, London, Man Ray sale, 22-23 March 1995, lots 405 and 531, respectively). This then may be a unique photo-based work by Man Ray, incorporating his hallmark mixed-media approach.

1 Exhibition catalogue, Man Ray: Photographs, Paris, Centre Pompidou, 1981, pl.188.

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