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Man Ray (1890-1976)

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Man Ray (1890-1976)

Demain

signed in white crayon lower right Man Ray and numbered 2/6 lower left, titled and dated on the reverse Demain 2/6-1967 and signed again Man Ray (1932), triple exposure photograph
16 1/8in. (41cm.) high

Conceived in 1932 and executed in 1967 in an edition of six, edited by Arturo Schwarz

Literature

Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Man Ray exhibition catalogue, Rotterdam, 1971, no. 157 (no. 116)
A. Schwarz, Man Ray, Carte varie e variabili, Milan, 1983, no. 156 (another example illustrated p. 100)
A. Schwarz, Man Ray, The Rigour of Imagination, London, 1977, no. 276 (another example illustrated p. 150; Schwarz gives the date as 1965 and the edition as 8, which was probably the six numbered examples and two artist's proofs)

Lot Essay

Schwarz writes of this piece, "The number three, which we find in the triple-exposure photograph, also refers to the Philosopher's Stone, while the title of the photograph Demain, implies the concept of eternal youth. Does Man Ray wish to suggest that perfection lies in the bliss of sex, and/or, does he wish to remind us of Paradise when nakedness was our natural state." (op. cit., 1977, p. 159)

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