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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 24, 2025 | Sotheby's | London | Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction | 15 | $****** - ****** | Noire et blanche | |||
Apr 25, 2007 | Sotheby's | New York | Photographs from the Private Collection of Margaret W. Weston | 16 | $****** - ****** | Noire et Blanche |
photographs
17.5 x 22.8 cm (6.89 x 8.98 in)
gelatin silver print
inscribed Original and annotated Haut and Page 44 by the photographer in pencil, and with his 31 bis, Rue Campagne Première, Paris XIVe (Manford M6) studio stamp and reproduction interdite (Manford M14) stamp, and various inscriptions and reduction notations in pencil and ink (on the reverse)
Private Collection
Sotheby"s Belgravia, 22 March 1978, lot 261
Private Collection
Christie"s East, 11 and 12 November 1980, lot 304
Collection of Margaret W. Weston (acquired from the above)
Sotheby"s New York, Photographs from the Private Collection of Margaret W. Weston , 25 April 2007, lot 16
Acquired from the above in 2007 with Hamiltons Gallery, London, as agent by the present owner
Passion and Precision: Photographs from the Collection of Margaret W. Weston Monterey Museum of Art 2003, in conjunction with the exhibition, p. 18, illustrated (this print)
Other prints of this image (variant croppings):
‘Visage de Nacre et Masque d"Ébène," Vogue Paris, vol. 7, no. 5, 1 May 1926 , p. 37, illustrated
‘Man Ray," Variétés , vol. 1, no. 3, 15 July-December 1928, p. 154, illustrated
‘Les Photographies de Man Ray," Art et Décoration , vol. 54, no. 5, July-December 1928, pp. 154-60, illustrated
Man Ray: Photographs, 1920-1934 , Hartford and Paris 1934, p. 44, illustrated
Man Ray, Self Portrait, Boston 1963, p. 118, illustrated
Man Ray: Photographs, 1920-1934 , New York 1975, pl. 44, illustrated
Man Ray: Inventionen und Interpretationen , Frankfurt am Main 1979, p. 162, illustrated
Photographs by Man Ray: 105 Works, New York 1979, p. 44, illustrated
Janus, Man Ray: The Photographic Image , New York 1980, pl. 55, illustrated
Jean-Hubert Martin, Man Ray Photographe , Musée national d"art moderne, Philippe Sers éditeur, Paris 1982, p. 106, illustrated
Rosalind Krauss and Jane Livingston, L"Amour Fou: Photography & Surrealism, Washington, D. C.: The Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1985 (in conjunction with the exhibition), p. 138, illustrated
Perpetual Motif: The Art of Man Ray, Washington, D. C: National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution 1988, in conjunction with the exhibition, pl. 164, illustrated
Merry Foresta and Willis Hartshorn, Man Ray: In Fashion , New York: International Center of Photography 1990 (in conjunction with the Man Ray/Bazaar Years: A Fashion Retrospective exhibition), p. 62, illustrated
Klaus Honnef, Man Ray: Fotografien 1919 - 1949 Neues wie Vertrautes , Ostfildern-Ruit 1994, p. 36, illustrated
Man Ray, 1890-1976 , Ghent and New York 1994, pp. 40-1, illustrated
Rudolf Kicken, ed., Man Ray: 1890-1976 Photographien , KunstHausWien 1996, cover and pls. 24-5, illustrated
Marina Vanci-Perahim, Great Modern Masters: Man Ray, New York 1997, p. 4, illustrated
Janus, Man Ray , Milan 1998, p. 86, illustrated
Emmanuelle de l"Ecotais and Alain Sayag, eds., Man Ray: Photography and Its Double , Musée National d"Art Moderne, Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou 1998 (in conjunction with the exhibition), p. 12, illustrated
Man Ray: Paris Photographs, 1920-1934 , New York 2000, cover and pl. 44, illustrated
Manfred Heiting, ed., Man Ray: 1890-1976 , Köln 2000, p. 39, illustrated
Chorus of Light: Photographs from the Sir Elton John Collection , Atlanta: High Museum of Art, 2000 (in conjunction with the exhibition), p. 76, illustrated
Cecilia Casorati, Man Ray Fotografie / Photographs 1925-1955 , Milan 2001, pp. 28-9, illustrated
Herbert R. Lottman, Man Ray"s Montparnasse , New York 2001, p. 57, illustrated
Charlotte Benton, Tim Benton, and Ghislaine Wood, Art Deco, 1910-1939 , London, Victoria and Albert Museum 2003, pp. 292-93
Alexandre Castant, Noire et blanche de Man Ray , Paris 2003, cover and p. 2, illustrated
Valerio Dehó, ed., Man Ray Women , Bologna 2005, p. 53, illustrated
Wendy A. Grossman and Steven Manford, ‘Unmasking Man Ray"s Noire et blanche,‘ American Art , vol. 20, no. 2, Summer 2006, pp. 134-47, illustrated
Jennifer Mundy, ed., Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia , London 2008, pp. 112-13, illustrated
Mason Klein, Alias Man Ray , New York, 2009, p. 119
Man Ray , Museo d"Arte Della Citta di Lugano 2011, p. 102, illustrated
Terence Pepper, Man Ray Portraits , New Haven 2013, pl. 55, illustrated
Exh. Cat, Washington, D. C., The Phillips Collection, Man Ray: Human Equations , February - May 2015, p. 148, illustrated
Emmanuelle de l"Ecotais and Katherine Ware, Man Ray: 1890-1976 , Cologne 2017, pp. 38-9, illustrated
Frederique van Reij, ‘Man Ray"s Portrait of Peggy Guggenheim," Rijksmuseum Studies in Photography , vol. 16, 2017, pp. 50-51, illustrated
Michael R. Taylor, Man Ray: The Paris Years , Richmond 2021, p. 138, illustrated
Property of an Important Private Collector
Man Ray
1890 - 1976
Noire et blanche
inscribed Original and annotated Haut and Page 44 by the photographer in pencil, and with his 31 bis, Rue Campagne Première, Paris XIVe (Manford M6) studio stamp and reproduction interdite (Manford M14) stamp, and various inscriptions and reduction notations in pencil and ink (on the reverse)
gelatin silver print
17.5 by 22.8 cm. 6⅞ by 9 in.
Executed in 1926, printed no later than 1935.
