MAN RAY (1890–1976)
Les Voies Lactées
Turin: Galleria Il Fauno, 1974. Portfolio of eleven gelatin silver prints, each stamped on the verso; each mounted on folded presentation sleeve with printed text; each image/sheet approximately 12¹⁄₈ x 8¹⁄₂ in. (30.7 x 21.5 cm.), each framed in brown wood frames with plexi, 16 x 23¹⁄₂ in. (40.6. x 59.6 cm.); together with title page signed, numbered and inscribed in English and French, 'For Henry Miller / this stuttering elucrubation(sic) / in memory of more valid / souvenirs, affectionately / Man Ray / 1974 / pour Henry Miller / avec toute la sympatie / de Luciano..1974'; number fifty-one from an edition of seventy-five, plus twenty-five artist's proofs.

Christie's, New York, April 24, 1990, lot 429;
acquired from the above by the present owner.

Herbert. Molderings and Claudia Schubert, Man Ray and L. Fritz Gruber: Years of Friendship, 1956-1976, Steidl, Göttingen, 2008, pgs. 146-149.