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AN EYE FOR COLOUR: WORKS FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION
MAN RAY (1890-1976)
Purple Mask
Details
MAN RAY (1890-1976)
Purple Mask
signed and dated 'Man Ray 1948' (lower right)
oil on canvas
12 x 8 7⁄8 in. (30.5 x 22.6 cm.)
Painted in 1948
Purple Mask
signed and dated 'Man Ray 1948' (lower right)
oil on canvas
12 x 8 7⁄8 in. (30.5 x 22.6 cm.)
Painted in 1948
Provenance
Juliet Man Ray, Los Angeles & Paris, and thence by descent.
The Man Ray Trust, New York; sale, Sotheby's, Paris, 15 November 2014, lot 5.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
The Man Ray Trust, New York; sale, Sotheby's, Paris, 15 November 2014, lot 5.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Exhibited
Princeton, University Art Museum, Man Ray, Drawings, Watercolours, Rayograms, Chess Sets, Books, Objects, March - April 1963, no. 39.
Frankfurt, Kunstverein, Man Ray, Inventionen und Interpretationen, October - December 1979, no. 39, p. 186; this exhibition later travelled to Basel, Kunsthalle, January - February 1980.
Paris, Galerie Montaigne, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Francis Picabia, October - November 1989, n.n.
Santa Monica, Track 16 Gallery & Robert Brennan Gallery, Man Ray , Paris ~ LA, September 1996 - January 1997, p. 26 (illustrated p. 27).
Paris, Pinacothèque, Atelier Man Ray, Unconcerned But Not Indifferent, March - June 2008, p. 209 (illustrated p. 208).
Tokyo, The National Art Center, Man Ray, Unconcerned But Not Indifferent, July - September 2010; this exhibition later travelled to Osaka, The National Museum of Art, September - November 2010, no. 250, p. 356 (illustrated p. 185).
Frankfurt, Kunstverein, Man Ray, Inventionen und Interpretationen, October - December 1979, no. 39, p. 186; this exhibition later travelled to Basel, Kunsthalle, January - February 1980.
Paris, Galerie Montaigne, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Francis Picabia, October - November 1989, n.n.
Santa Monica, Track 16 Gallery & Robert Brennan Gallery, Man Ray , Paris ~ LA, September 1996 - January 1997, p. 26 (illustrated p. 27).
Paris, Pinacothèque, Atelier Man Ray, Unconcerned But Not Indifferent, March - June 2008, p. 209 (illustrated p. 208).
Tokyo, The National Art Center, Man Ray, Unconcerned But Not Indifferent, July - September 2010; this exhibition later travelled to Osaka, The National Museum of Art, September - November 2010, no. 250, p. 356 (illustrated p. 185).
Further details
Andrew Strauss and Timothy Baum of the Man Ray Expertise Committee have confirmed the authenticity of this work and that it will be included in the catalogue raisonné of the Paintings of Man Ray, currently in preparation.
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