Details
Man Ray (1890-1976)
Untitled
signed and dated 'Man Ray 58' (lower left)
oil on canvas
8 5/8 x 13 in. (21.9 x 33 cm.)
Painted in 1958
Provenance
Private collection, a gift from the artist.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, New York, 10 April 1980, lot 103C.
Anonymous sale, Heritage Auctions, Texas, 17 March 2017, lot 65316.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
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Lot Essay

To be included in the catalogue of the paintings of Man Ray being prepared by Andrew Strauss and Timothy Baum.

The present work was painted in 1958, just a few years after Man Ray returned to Paris from America. The dynamic composition is inspired by the artist's lifelong interest in geometry and is formed by three intersecting shapes suggesting a bird.

'I was trying to destroy certain traditions, to leave the field clear again for a new approach to things’. Man Ray quoted in A. Schwarz, Man Ray: The Rigour of Imagination, New York, 1977, p. 59.


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