Sale 2495
New York
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19 December 2011
Price realised
USD 27,500
Estimate
MAN RAY (1890-1976) Untitled, c. 1935 gelatin silver print various annotations in an unknown hand in pencil and Rue Campagne Première studio credit stamp (on the verso) 9 1/8 x 7 1/8in. (23.8 x 18.8cm.)
Provenance
Christie's New York, April 22, 2003, lot 0167; acquired from the above sale by the present owner
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Literature
Minotaure, no. 7, 1935, p. 75; De l'Ecotais & Sayag, Man Ray: La Photographie à l'envers, Centre Georges Pompidou/Seuil, 1998, p. 37
Exhibited
Man Ray: La Photographie à l'envers, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 1998
This portrait appeared in the 1935 issue of Minotaure as an advertisement for Man Ray's new portrait studio at 8, rue du Val-de-Grâce. This print was used for the reproduction.
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