Lot 22
Lot 22
MODERN PERSPECTIVES: PHOTOGRAPHS FROM A DISTINGUISHED EAST COAST COLLECTION
MAN RAY (1890–1976)

Lee Miller, c. 1930

Price Realised USD 378,000
Estimate
USD 100,000 - USD 150,000
Closed: 6 Oct 2022
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MAN RAY (1890–1976)

Lee Miller, c. 1930

Price Realised USD 378,000
Closed: 6 Oct 2022
Price Realised USD 378,000
Closed: 6 Oct 2022
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MAN RAY (1890–1976)

Lee Miller, c. 1930
gelatin silver print, mounted on paper
signed and annotated ‘Paris’ in pencil (mount, recto); photographer’s rue Campagne Première stamp (mount, verso)
image/sheet: 9 x 7 in. (22.8 x 17.7 cm.)
mount: 11 5/8 x 8 7/8 in. (29.5 x 22.5 cm.)

Provenance
Drouot-Estimations, Paris, November 20, 2007, lot 24;
Cheim & Reid, New York, 2007;
Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York;
Michael Shapiro Gallery, Westport;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 2013.
Literature
Jane Livingston, Lee Miller: Photographer, The California/International Arts Foundation and Thames and Hudson, New York, 1989, p. 8.
Emmanuelle de l’Ecotais and Alain Sayag (eds.), Man Ray: Photography and its Double, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1998, p. 222.
Mason Klein, Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention, The Jewish Museum, New York, 2009, p. 89.
Philip Prodger, Man Ray | Lee Miller: Partners in Surrealism, Merrell, London, 2011, p. 97.
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