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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 6, 2008 | Sotheby's | London | Impressionist and Modern Art Day Sale | 388 | $****** - ****** | Pechage |
sculpture
33 x 22 x 10 cm (12.99 x 8.66 x 3.94 in)
plastic peaches, cotton wool and oil in a wooden box with a lid
signed 'Man Ray', box interior and lid interior; dated '69', box interior; '1969', lid interior; inscribed titled, box interior; 'Top' and 'Haut' (twice), box exterior
Erica Brausen, London (acquired from the artist)
Jean-Yves Mock, London (acquired from the above. Sale: Sotheby's, London, 8th February 2005, lot 62)
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner
London, Hanover Gallery, Man Ray, 1969, illustration in colour of an artist's proof from the edition Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen; Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne & Humlebæk, Louisiana Museum, Man Ray, 1971-72, no. 211 (no. 196 in Humlebæk), illustrated in colour in the catalogue
Janus, Man Ray, Milan, 1973, no. 136, colour illustration of an example from the edition Roland Penrose, Man Ray, London, 1975, illustrated in colour on the cover; pl. XIX, colour illustration of an example from the edition p. 184 Arturo Schwarz, Man Ray. The Rigour of Imagination, London, 1977, no. 323, illustrated in colour p. 184 Jean-Hubert Martin, Rosalind Krauss & Brigitte Hermann, Man Ray. Objets de mon affection. Sculptures et objects, catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1983, no. 170, catalogued p. 157; colour illustration of the 1970 variant on the dust jacket Janus, Man Ray. uvres 1909-1972, Milan, 1990, no. 83, colour illustration of an example from the edition Man Ray (exhibition catalogue), Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo, 1990-91, no. O-46, colour illustration of the 1970 variant p. 32 Sotheby's, London, Man Ray, Paintings, Objects, Photographs, 22nd & 23rd March 1995, the artist's proof illustrated on the cover
