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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 10, 2025 | Grisebach | Berlin | Photography Online Only, 10 to 19 October 2025 | 1869 | $****** - ****** | Contact sheet with 35 photographs, showing plates 35-69 of the book ”Photographs by Man Ray: 1920-1934, Paris” |
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44 x 42 x 2 cm (17.32 x 16.54 x 0.79 in)
Gelatin silver print
Inscribed and numbered in black ballpoint pen and pencil on the reverse
Formerly Collection Juliet Man Ray, Collection Elsa Combe-Martin
Man Ray (Philadelphia 1890 - 1976 Paris). Contact sheet with 35 photographs, showing plates 35-69 of the book ”Photographs by Man Ray: 1920-1934, Paris”.
Gelatin silver print, presumably printed 1950s. 23,6 × 21,5 cm (9 ¼ × 8 ½ in.). Inscribed and numbered in black ballpoint pen and pencil on the reverse. Frame dimensions: 44 x 42 x 2 cm.
[2039]
Literature and illustration:
James Thrall Soby (ed.), Photographs by Man Ray, 1920-1934, Paris 1934 Photographs by Man Ray, 105 works 1920-1934, New York 1979, pl. 35-69 Man Ray Photographs, London 1982, ill. 75, 111, 271
The contact sheet includes the images from plates 35 to 69 of the 104 photographs selected by Man Ray for his first photobook in 1934. These include some of his most famous images, now icons of photographic history, such as ‘Noire et Blanche (Kiki and the Mask)", the self-portrait with the camera, portraits of Lee Miller, Jaqueline Goddard and Meret Oppenheim, Salvador Dali and Gertrude Stein.
Condition report: With creases and handling marks. Glossy paper. Crease running down the centre of the page. Right-hand half with a diagonal crease over the height of the sheet. Upper third, 7.8 cm from the top edge with a weaker crease mark across the width of the sheet. Further minor crease marks and handling traces. Corners and edges slightly bumped.
