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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 | 1871 | $****** - ****** | Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp playing chess in Man Ray"s studio on Rue Férou, Paris |
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42 x 35 x 2 cm (16.54 x 13.78 x 0.79 in)
Vintage. Gelatin silver print
Photographer"s stamp: "PHOTOGRAPH MAN RAY" on the reverse
Formerly Collection Juliet Man Ray, Collection Elsa Combe-Martin
Man Ray (Philadelphia 1890 - 1976 Paris). Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp playing chess in Man Ray"s studio on Rue Férou, Paris. 1952/1960
Vintage. Gelatin silver print. 23,2 × 15 cm (23,5 × 15,2 cm) (9 ⅛ × 5 ⅞ in. (9 ¼ × 6 in.)). Photographer"s stamp: "PHOTOGRAPH MAN RAY" on the reverse. Frame dimensions: 42 x 35 x 2 cm.
[2009]
Literature and illustration:
Hans Richter: Dada. Art and Anti-Art, London 1965 (Reprint 2004), pl. 45, between p. 46 and p. 47 / Man Ray: Self-portrait. Boston 1963, p. 243 (there titled and dated: Man Ray with Marcel Duchamp, Paris, 1956) / Exh. cat.: Man Ray. Works from a Private Collection. New York, Shepherd & Derom Galleries, 2009, pl. 20
Condition report: In good condition. Matte heavy paper. In the center of the right margin (Duchamp"s face), there is a very faint vertical crease mark, approx. 3 cm long, perceptible only in raking light. In the lower left corner zone, there are a few isolated minuscule pressure dots as well as faint scratch and finger marks, unobtrusive. In the lower right corner zone, there are matte marks of a stamp, perceptible only in raking light. Right edge irregularly trimmed.
