Name: MAN RAY (1890-1976)
Brand: Revolving Doors
Price: 42000.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

MAN RAY (1890-1976)
Revolving Doors
signed and inscribed 'for Roz and Mel, these specially hand-painted plates done under their kind presence during many years of their devoted interest Man Ray Paris 1972' in ink on the title page; signed and annotated 'Man Ray E.A.' on the justification page
the complete set of ten pochoirs in colors, on Arches paper, with the title, table of contents and justification pages
Each Sheet: 25 x 18 in. (635 x 455 mm.)
Executed in 1972. This set is an artist's proof set (the edition was 100). Published by Luciano Anselmino, Torino, Italy.

Acquired directly from the artist by the late owners, 1972.

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Between 1916 and 1917, Man Ray created a series of collages he called "Revolving Doors." He included the series in his third solo exhibition at the Daniel Gallery in New York, in 1919. The collages, whose geometric shapes combine machine-like and anthropomorphic forms, were framed and installed on a rotating pole that the viewer could spin. The original collages were destroyed, but he later reproduced them in this series of pochoirs, published by Éditions Surréalistes in Paris in 1926 and a subsequent edition in 1972 published by Luciano Anselmino. When Man Ray exhibited the Revolving Doors, he wrote labels to accompany each work. He later published the entire series in the Surrealist periodical Minotaure 7 (1935). The original, typewritten document is in the collection of the J.P. Getty Museum, Los Angeles.