Name: MAN RAY (1890–1976)
Brand: L’Enigme d’Isidore Ducasse (The Enigma of Isidore Ducasse), 1920
Price: 7500.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

MAN RAY (1890–1976)
L’Enigme d’Isidore Ducasse (The Enigma of Isidore Ducasse), 1920
ferrotyped gelatin silver print, printed before 1970
signed, titled, dated and inscribed in pencil by the artist (verso)
image/sheet: 8¹⁄₈ x 10³⁄₈ in. (20.6 x 26.3 cm.)

Private Collection, Milan;
acquired from the above by a private collector, New York, 1978.

This print: Man Ray, Man Ray / Oggetti d'Affezione, Einaudi Publishing, Turin, 1970, pl 13.

La Révolution surréaliste, December 1, 1924, no. 1, première année, p. 1 (preface).
Man Ray L’Immagine Fotografica, Edizioni La Biennale Di Venezia, Venezia, 1977, pl. 6.
Philippe Sers, MAN RAY / Objets de mon affection, Paris, 1983, p. 39, cat. no. 27.
Man Ray, Man Ray: 1890-1976, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1995, pl. 9, p. 257.
Man Ray, Photographies de Man Ray, Tokyo Shimbun, Tokyo, 2002, p. 117.
Mason Klein, Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2009, fig 52, p. 50 (color variant).
Wendy A. Grossman and Andrew Strauss, Man Ray: Human Equations, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, 2015, fig. 93, p. 123.

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The three photographs offered as lots 49–51, come originally from the collection of an Italian bookseller in Milan. The collection itself was used extensively as the source images for a number of Man Ray monographs. Large portions of the collection were the maquette for the first edition of Man Ray's Objects of My Affection, published in Italy in 1970 as Man Ray / Oggetti d'Affezione.

The upper left corner of the image offered in the present lot has been retouched so as to reduce the contrast in this area and allow for a less distracting gray background. The reproduction in Man Ray / Oggetti d'Affezione illustrates this handwork.

We thank Steven Manford, Man Ray Research Scholar, for contributing the cataloguing and research of these lots, and for sharing his research on the other Man Ray works being offered.