MAN RAY (1890-1976)

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MAN RAY (1890-1976)

New York
signed with initials, numbered, titled and dated on tape affixed to the rim MR E.A. NEW YORK 1920-1973--forty-one steel ball bearings in a glass olive oil bottle with cork and tape
Height: 9¾ in. (24.8 cm.)
Original object created in 1920; this example from an edition of nine with three artist's proofs edited by Lucien Treillard, 1973
Provenance
Gallery Montaigne, Paris
Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston
Literature
ed. P. Sers, May Ray: Objets de mon affection, Paris, 1983, p. 141, no. 20 (another example illustrated, p. 34)
Man Ray, Self Portrait, Boston, 1988, p. 94 (another example illustrated, p. 81)

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