Man Ray
Man Ray, Enigma II, 1935
Vintage gelatin silver print, 8 1/4 x 9 in. (21 x 22.9 cm)
Signed in ink within image, titled and dated in pencil with annotations in pencil and red ink on print verso.
8825
$68,000
Exhibition history:
Hartford, CT, Wadsworth Atheneum, Man Ray: Rayographs & Photographs; Los Angeles, CA, Man Ray: Drawings and Photographs; Arts Center School; Barcelona, Spain, Galeria Adlan, Man Ray: Paintings & Photographs; Paris, Galerie des Cahiers d’Art, (objects and paintings), 1935
Paris and New York, Alexander lolas, Man Ray, 1974
Rome, Pallazo delle Esposizioni, Man Ray: L’occhio e il suo il doppio, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, 1975
Italy, Venice Biennale, Man Ray, testimonianza attraverso la fotografia, July 18-October 10, 1976
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Beyond Real: Surrealist Photography and Sculpture from Bay Area Collections, March-May 2006
London, Tate Modern, Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia, February-May 2008
Provenance:
The artist; The Lucien Anselmino Collection, Roma; Christie’s, New York, 18 April 2001, sale 9618, Lot 88; The Chara Schreyer Collection, acquired from the Christie's sale; Sotheby’s, New York, 10 April 2024, Lot 111; Private collection.
Litterature:
Man Ray: Photographs (New York, 1975), p.135
Man Ray: L’occhio e il suo doppio (Rome, 1975), p.113
Gruppo Editoriiale Electa, MAN RAY: l’immagine Fotografica, Italy; Ediziona “LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA,” Venezia, 1977
Arturo Schwartz, Man Ray: The Rigour of Imagination (New York, 1980), pl.138, p.204 Janus, Man Ray: The Photographic Image, (New York, 1980)
Paris, Centre National d’Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Man Ray photographs, December 1981-April 1982; Thames and Hudson, Man Ray: Photographs, (New York 1982), P.135, pl.152
Jan Ceuleers, ed., Man Ray, 1890-1976) (Ghent, 1994), p.32
Fabbri ed., Man Ray: Photography, Painting, Sculpture, Cinema, Graphics, ed. Daniela Palazzoli, (Roma, 1995), p.155
Douglas Fogle and Hannake Skerath, eds., Making Strange: The Chara Schreyer Collection (New York, 2021, pp. 33 and 416.