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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 7, 2024 | Christie's | London | The Art of the Surreal Evening Sale | 113 | $****** - ****** | Maisons ennemies |
paintings
41 x 41 cm (16.13 x 16.13 in)
oil on canvas
signed, dated and inscribed "man Ray 1933 maisons ennemies" (lower right)
William N. Copley, New York, by whom acquired directly from the artist in 1948; his sale, Sotheby"s, New York, 5 November 1979, lot 34.
Waddington Galleries Ltd, London.
Acquired from the above on 14 June 1980, and thence by descent to the present owner.
Paris, Galerie Cahiers d"Art, Man Ray , 1935, no. 8, p. 128 (illustrated).
London, New Burlington Galleries, The International Surrealist Exhibition , June - July 1936, no. 310, p. 27 (dated "1929").
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, E.L.T. Mesens presénte Trois peintres surréalistes, René Magritte, Man Ray, Yves Tanguy , December 1937, no. 41.
London, The London Gallery Ltd, Man Ray , February 1939, no. 31, p. 3 (illustrated, p. 11).
Besançon, Palais Granvelle, Surréalisme et précurseurs , June 1961, no. 130, p. 46.
Los Angeles, County Museum of Art, Man Ray , October - December 1966, no. 36, p. 55 (illustrated p. 64, with incorrect dimensions).
New York, Cordier & Ekstrom, Man Ray, A Selection of Paintings , January - February 1970 (illustrated, with incorrect dimensions)
New York, The New York Cultural Center, Man Ray , Inventor, Painter, Poet, December 1974 - March 1975, no. 29 (illustrated, with incorrect dimensions); this exhibition later travelled to London, The Institute of Contemporary Arts, Man Ray , April - June 1975, no. 26 (with incorrect dimensions); and Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Man Ray, l"occhio e il suo doppio, dipinti, collages, disegni, invenzioni fotografiche, oggetti d"affezione, libri, cinema , July - September 1975, no. 107 (illustrated) .
"Intervention surréaliste", in Documents 34 , Brussels, 1934, p. 77 (illustrated).
C. Zervos, Histoire de l"Art Contemporain , Paris, 1938, p. 443 (illustrated).
Exh cat., Man Ray Photographe , Paris, 1981, p. 206 (illustrated in sit u in its preliminary state , fig. 260)
J.-H. Martin, Man Ray, Objets de mon affection, Sculptures et objets, Catalogue raisonné , Paris, 1983, p. 175 (illustrated in situ ).
MAN RAY (1890-1976)
Maisons ennemies
signed, dated and inscribed "man Ray 1933 maisons ennemies" (lower right)
oil on canvas
16 1/8 x 16 1/8 in. (41.2 x 41.2 cm.)
Painted in 1933
