Lot 29
Man RayHands (Rayograms) 2
4 October 2021, 14:00 EDT
New YorkUS$40,000 - US$60,000
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Man Ray
Hands (Rayograms), 1922
2 gelatin silver Rayograms, thought unique as a set, printed c. 1955, each signed and dated in pencil/ ink and '31 bis rue Campagne Première, Paris' credit stamp on the verso.
(2)
sheet each approximately 9 1/2 x 6 7/8in (24.1 x 17.7cm)
2 gelatin silver Rayograms, thought unique as a set, printed c. 1955, each signed and dated in pencil/ ink and '31 bis rue Campagne Première, Paris' credit stamp on the verso.
(2)
sheet each approximately 9 1/2 x 6 7/8in (24.1 x 17.7cm)
Footnotes
Provenance
The collection of Surrealist publisher Jean Petithory;
to Gerard Levy, mid 1970s
Literature
L'Ecotais (ed.,) Man Ray: Rayographies, Leo Scheer, 2002, pls. 19 and 21, p. 204, these prints illustrated
In her book, cited above, Man Ray scholar Emmanuelle de l'Ecotais dates both images as from 1922. They are illustrated next to another, very similar, hands experiment from the same year.
Exhibited
July 2 - September 9, 2014, Man Ray, Picabia et la Revue Littérature, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, reproduced in the accompanying catalogue, p. 26, pls. 29-30
November 15, 2009 - March 14, 2010, Alias Man Ray, The Jewish Museum, New York, reproduced in the accompanying catalogue, p.145
February 21 - May 26, 2008, Duchamp, Man Ray and Picabia, Tate Gallery, London, reproduced twice in the accompanying catalogue, front and back endpapers and pp.104-105
April 29 - June 29. 1998, Man Ray: La Photographie à l'Envers, Grand Palais, Paris, reproduced in the accompanying catalogue, pp. 190-191 and 256
June 13 - August 16, 1998, Im Reich der Phantome: Photographie des Unsichtbaren, Fotomuseum, Winterthur, reproduced in the accompanying catalogue, p. 157, pl. 60 [white hand]
December 2, 1988 - January 7, 1990, Perpetual Motif: The Art of Man Ray, National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC, MoCA, Los Angeles, Menil Collection, Houston and Philadelphia Museum of Art, reproduced on the cover and inside of the accompanying brochure.
