MAN RAY (1890-1976)

Boule sans neige

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MAN RAY (1890-1976)
Boule sans neige
multiple with objects in resin, 1970, inscribed with the artist's signature on the base, an artist's proof aside from the edition of ten, produced by Il Polimero arte, Castiglione, Milan, with their stamp on the base, published by Studio Marconi, Milan, in good condition
240 x 150 x 150 mm. (overall)

Literature

Man Ray, Jean-Hubert Martin, Rosalind Krauss, Man Ray - Objets de mon affection, Paris, 1983, p. 51 (ill.), no. 36 (another example illustrated).
Janus, Man Ray, Milan, 1973, no. 29 (another example illustrated).

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Lot Essay

Man Ray's Surrealist interpretation of a snow globe was instigated by the Galerie Surréaliste in Paris who invited artists to create interpretations of the conventional souvenir.

The present lot, created in 1970, is a resin recreation of the glass Boule sans neige from circa 1930 that contained wax crayons and a drawing of Lee Miller's eye, but due to its fragile structure the object disintegrated shortly after completion.

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