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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Apr 10, 2018 | Sotheby's | New York | Photographs | 133 | $****** - ****** | Very Good | MINOTAUR |
photographs
14.9 x 23.5 cm (5.87 x 9.25 in)
photograph
dated and numbered '36' in pencil and with the photographer's '31 bis, Rue Campagne Première' studio stamp (Manford M6) and posthumous copyright stamp (Manford M30) on the reverse
Collection of the photographer
By descent to Juliet Man Ray, the photographer's widow, 1976
Sotheby's London, Man Ray: Paintings, Objects, Photographs: Property from the Estate of Juliet Man Ray, the Man Ray Trust and the Family of Juliet Man Ray, 22-23 March 1995, Sale 5173, Lot 15
Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou/Musée National d’Art Moderne, Man Ray, December 1981 - May 1982
Washington, D. C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art, L'Amour Fou: Photography and Surrealism, September - November 1985
Geneva, Musée Rath, Regards sur Minotaure, la revue à tête de bête, October 1987 - January 1988, and traveling to Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, March - May 1988
Washington, D. C., The National Museum of American Art, Perpetual Motif: The Art of Man Ray, December 1988 - February 1989; and traveling to Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art; Houston, The Menil Collection; and The Philadelphia Museum of Art through January 1990
Tokyo, The Bunkamura Museum of Art, Man Ray et ses Amis, July - August 1991; and traveling to Takamatsu, City Museum of Art; Tsukuba, Museum of Art, Ibaraki; Okayama, Prefectural Museum of Art; Akita, Senshu Museum of Art; Itami, City Museum of Art, through 1992
Greenwich, Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, The Surrealist Vision: Europe and the Americas, January - April 1998
Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou/Musée National d’Art Moderne and the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Man Ray, La photographie à l'envers, April - June 1998
London, Tate Modern, Surrealism: Desire Unbound, September 2001 - January 2002, and travelling to New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, February - May 2002
Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Man Ray, February - April 2004
Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou/Musée National d’Art Moderne, Traces du Sacré, May - August 2008, and travelling to Munich, Haus der Kunst, September 2008 - January 2009
Minotaure, No. 7, June 1935, ill. table of contents
This print:
Man Ray (Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou/Musée National d’Art Moderne, 1981), no. 175, pp. 148-9
L'Amour Fou: Photography & Surrealism (Washington, D. C.: The Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1985), fig. 9, pp. 16-7
Dada and Surrealism (Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1985), fig. 2, p. 45
Regards sur Minotaure (Geneva and Paris: Musée Rath and Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1987), no. 171, p. 203
Perpetual Motif: The Art of Man Ray (Washington, D. C.: National Museum of American Art, 1988), fig. 199, p. 225
Man Ray et ses Amis (Tokyo: The Bunkamura Museum of Art, 1991), no. 4, p. 25
A Boatload of Madmen: Surrealism and the American Avant-Garde, 1920-1950 (New York, 1995), pl. 26
Man Ray, La photographie à l'envers (Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou/Musée National d’Art Moderne, 1998), pp. 226-7
The Surrealist Vision: Europe and the Americas (Greenwich: Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, 1998), p. 22
Surrealism: Desire Unbound (Princeton, 2001), fig. 214, p. 218
Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention (New York: The Jewish Museum, 2009), p. 64
dated and numbered '36' in pencil and with the photographer's '31 bis, Rue Campagne Première' studio stamp (Manford M6) and posthumous copyright stamp (Manford M30) on the reverse, 1933
5 7/8 by 9 1/4 in. (14.9 by 23.5 cm.)
