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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 14, 2022 | Christie's | New York | The Surrealist World of Rosalind Gersten Jacobs and Melvin Jacobs | 668 | $****** - ****** | Decollage III |
paintings
54 x 43.8 x 3.2 cm (21.25 x 17.25 x 1.25 in)
collage with bobby pins, hair, thread, fabric and wax paper in the artist's painted frame
signed, dated, titled and inscribed '"Decollage" Man Ray-1917 Coll. Arensberg N.Y. (destroyed) (Third 30 1957' (on the reverse)
Gift from the artist by the late owners, April 1957.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Man Ray, October-December 1966, p. 107, no. 131 (original version illustrated).
Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen; Paris, Musée national d'art moderne and Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Man Ray , September 1971-April 1972, p. 128, no. 61 (original version illustrated, p. 55).
The New York Cultural Center, Man Ray: Inventor/Painter/Poet , December 1974-March 1975, no. 181 (illustrated).
London, The Institute of Contemporary Arts, Man Ray , April-June 1975, p. 10, no. 167.
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Dada and New York , May-July 1979, no. 16.
New York, Zabriskie Gallery, Man Ray: The New York Years, 1913-1921 , November 1988-January 1989, p. 13.
New York, Kent Gallery, Man Ray, Meret Oppenheim , January-March 1992, no. 9.
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Making Mischief: Dada Invades New York , November 1996-February 1997, p. 88 (illustrated).
Miami, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sweet Dreams and Nightmares: Dada and Surrealism from the Rosalind and Melvin Jacobs Collection , March-May 2000, no. 23 (illustrated in color).
New York, Zabriskie Gallery, Kiki of Montparnasse , April-May 2002.
Fukui Fine Arts Museum; Okazakai City Museum; Saitama Modern Art Museum; Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art and Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Man Ray: I Am an Enigma , June 2004-March 2005.
New York, Pace/MacGill Gallery, The Long Arm of Coincidence: Selections from the Rosalind and Melvin Jacobs Collection , April-May 2009 (illustrated in color).
A. Schwarz, Man Ray: The Rigour of Imagination , London, 1977, pp. 38, 135-136 and 159, no. 235 (original version illustrated).
Janus, Man Ray , Milan, 1973 (illustrated in color, fig. 14).
F.M. Naumann, “Walter Conrad Arensberg: Poet, Patron and Participant in the New York Avant-Garde, 1915-1920,” The Philadelphia Museum of Art Bulletin , vol. 76, no. 328, spring 1980 (Jacobs version illustrated, fig. 10).
Janus, Man Ray: Tutti gli scritti , Milan, 1981 (illustrated in color).
J.-H. Martin, intro., Man Ray: Objets de mon affection, Paris, 1983, p. 27, no. 8 (original version illustrated).
Janus, Man Ray: Oeuvres 1909-1972 , Paris, 1990 (illustrated in color, fig. 13).
MAN RAY (1890-1976)
Decollage III
signed, dated, titled and inscribed '"Decollage" Man Ray-1917 Coll. Arensberg N.Y. (destroyed) (Third 1947) This for Rosalind. parmis les cadeaux que nous avons echangés. Affectueusement Man Ray Paris. April 30, 1957' (on the reverse)
collage with bobby pins, hair, thread, fabric and wax paper in the artist's painted frame
collage: 16 1⁄8 x 12 1⁄4 in. (40.8 x 30.8 cm.)
frame: 21 1⁄4 x 17 1⁄4 x 1 1⁄4 in. (53.9 x 43.8 x 3.1 cm.)
Conceived in 1917 and recreated in 1947
