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Presse-papier à priape
Details
Man Ray (1890-1976)
Presse-papier à priape
signed with initials and numbered on a label attached inside the cylinder MR 7/50
white marble
20½in. (52cm.) high
The original object, made of three steel balls and tubing, was created in 1920. Several editions were made in silver, bronze and marble in the 1960s and early 1970s.
This work is dedicated to Priapus, the God of virility and has obvious sexual connotations. With his usual sense of humour, Man Ray recalled: "On looking at the photograph of this object, people usually asked me the size of the original. More or less like yours, was my reply." (Arturo Schwarz, Man Ray, The Rigour of Imagination, London, 1977, p. 159)
Presse-papier à priape
signed with initials and numbered on a label attached inside the cylinder MR 7/50
white marble
20½in. (52cm.) high
The original object, made of three steel balls and tubing, was created in 1920. Several editions were made in silver, bronze and marble in the 1960s and early 1970s.
This work is dedicated to Priapus, the God of virility and has obvious sexual connotations. With his usual sense of humour, Man Ray recalled: "On looking at the photograph of this object, people usually asked me the size of the original. More or less like yours, was my reply." (Arturo Schwarz, Man Ray, The Rigour of Imagination, London, 1977, p. 159)
Literature
Carmine Benincasa & Roberto Maria Siena, Man Ray, Les heures heureuses, Rome, 1975, pp.74-75
Jean-Hubert Martin, Rosalind Krauss & Brigitte Hermann, Man Ray: Objets de mon affection, Sculptures et Objets, Catalogue raisonné
Paris, 1983, p. 141, no. 23 (illustration of the silver edition p. 36)
Jean-Hubert Martin, Rosalind Krauss & Brigitte Hermann, Man Ray: Objets de mon affection, Sculptures et Objets, Catalogue raisonné
Paris, 1983, p. 141, no. 23 (illustration of the silver edition p. 36)