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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 7, 2016 | Sotheby's | New York | Photographs | 100 | $****** - ****** | Excellent | TORSO (LAMA [ SIC ] SHEATH)' |
photographs
29.2 x 22.5 cm (11.5 x 8.86 in)
photograph
titled in pencil and with the photographer's '31 bis, Rue Campagne Première Paris XIV' studio stamp (Manford M28) on the reverse
Knoedler Kasmin, Ltd., London
Private Collection
Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York
Private Collection
Acquired from the above
London, Knoedler Kasmin, Ltd., Man Ray: The Artist as Photographer (and Warrior, as well), December 1981
London, Serpentine Gallery, Man Ray, January-March 1995
Man Ray (London: Serpentine Gallery, 1995), unpaginated (this print)
Man Ray Photographies 1920-1934 Paris (James Thrall Soby, 1934), pl. 37
A. D. Coleman, ed., Man Ray: Photographs 1920-34 (New York, 1975), pl. 37 (New Edition of the 1934 book)
Janus, Man Ray: The Photographic Image (New York, 1980), pl. 95
Willis Hartshorn and Merry Foresta, Man Ray in Fashion (New York: International Center of Photography, 1990), p. 68
Emmanuelle de l'Ecotais and Alain Sayag, eds., Man Ray: Photography and Its Double (Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou - Musée National d'Art Moderne, 1998), p. 158
Marina Vanci-Perahim, Great Modern Masters: Man Ray (New York, 1998), pl. 49
Man Ray: Paris Photographs 1920-34 (New York, 2000), pl. 37 (New Edition of the 1934 book)
Emmanuelle de l'Ecotais and Katherine Ware, Man Ray. 1890-1976 (Cologne, 2000), p. 58
Photographies de Man Ray (Tokyo, 2002), pl. 137
titled in pencil and with the photographer's '31 bis, Rue Campagne Première Paris XIV' studio stamp (Manford M28) on the reverse, framed, 1929
11 1/2 by 8 7/8 in. (29.2 by 22.5 cm.)
![TORSO (LAMA [ SIC ] SHEATH)' by Man Ray](https://liveart-analytics.imgix.net/images/177683/8919bd0a-8a75-4783-8f2d-a741df6a327f?w=1280&h=960 "TORSO (LAMA [ SIC ] SHEATH)' by Man Ray")