Details
MAN RAY (1890–1976)
Death Mask of Diaghilev, 1929
gelatin silver print
signed and dated in pencil and variously inscribed in ink and pencil, stamped with photographer's 'Rue Campagne Premiere' credit [Manford M2] (verso); credited, titled and dated on affixed exhibition labels (frame backing board)
image/sheet: 9 x 7 in. (22.8 x 17.7 cm.)
Provenance
Sotheby's, London, July 8, 2004, lot 404;
acquired from the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
W.M. Hunt, The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the Unconscious, Aperture, New York, 2011, p. 297.
Exhibited
Arles, Recontres de la Photographie; Lausanne, Musée de l'Élysée; Amsterdam, FOAM Fotogafiemuseum, Sans Regard or No Eyes: Photographs from W.M. Hunt / Collection Dancing Bear, 2005-2007.
Ocala, Appelton Museum of Fine Arts, The Unseen Eye: Photography from the Collection of W.M. Hunt, November 7, 2010–January 2, 2011.
Rochester, George Eastman House, The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the W.M. Hunt Collection, October 1, 2011–February 19, 2012.
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