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| Image | Last Sale Date | Title | Edition No. | Last Sale | Last Sale Auction House | Last Sale Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 21, 2025 | Obstruction | 1 | Phillips | New York | |||
sculpture
91.4 x 167.6 cm (36 x 66 in)
Multiple comprised of 63 wooden hangers (plus one extra hanger), accompanied by instructional lithograph in purple, on Arches paper, with full margins, the lithograph framed
One hanger signed, titled and dated "1920-1964" and numbered "E/A I/III" in black ink; the lithograph signed with initials and numbered "E.A. I/II" in pencil (Schwarz calls for 6 artist"s proofs, the edition was 10)
Juliet Man Ray, New York
Private Collection, New York City (acquired from the above circa 1975-76)
Luciano Anselmino, emMan Ray: Opera Grafica/em, Torino, 1973, no. 80 (lithograph, another example illustrated)
Roland Penrose, emMan Ray/em, London, 1975, p. 206, no. 129 (another example illustrated, p. 195)
Arturo Schwarz, emMan Ray: The Rigour of Imagination/em, London, 1977, pp. 158, 160, 233, fig. 270 (1964 version illustrated, p. 149)
Jean-Hubert Martin, emMan Ray: Objets de mon affection/em, Paris, 1983, p. 141, no. 25 (1920 version illustrated, p. 38)
Adina Kamien-Karzhdan, emRemaking the Readymade: Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray in the Galleria Schwarz/em. PhD diss., University of Essex, Colchester, 2012, pp. 114-15, 130, 156, 230, 248-49
Francis M. Naumann, emNew York Dada, 1915-23/em, New York, 1994, p. 92 (another example illustrated, p. 93)
Leah Dickerman, emDada: Zurich, Berlin, Hannover, Cologne, New York/em, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 2005, pl. 294 (another example illustrated, p. 330)
Charles Stuckey, emDada Lives/em, in emArt in America/em vol. 94 (June/July 2006), p. 148 (another example illustrated)
George Baker, emThe Artwork Caught by the Tail: Francis Picabia and Dada in Paris/em, Cambridge, 2007, pp. 190, 194 (another example illustrated, p. 193)
Annelie Tuveros, emMan Ray/em, exh. cat., Mjellby Konstmuseum, Halmstad, 2013, pp. 24, 176, 216 (another example illustrated, pp. 32-33)
Stephanie D"Alessandro and Stephen C. Pinson, emMan Ray: When Objects Dream/em, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2025, pp. 130, 302, fig. 50 (another example illustrated, collection Centre Pompidou, Paris), color pl. 85
Man Ray
Obstruction (1920)
each hanger 5 1/2 x 16 7/8 in. (14 x 42.9 cm)
overall 36 x 66 in. (91.4 x 167.6 cm)
lithograph I. 13 x 17 1/2 in. (33 x 44.5 cm)
lithograph S. 17 1/2 x 22 1/4 in. (44.5 x 56.5 cm)
Multiple comprised of 63 wooden hangers (plus one extra hanger), accompanied by instructional lithograph in purple, on Arches paper, with full margins.
One hanger signed, titled and dated "1920-1964" and numbered "E/A I/III" in black ink (an artist"s proof, the edition was 10 and two additional examples painted in white, there was also an edition of 15 published in 1961 by the Moderna Museet, Stockholm), published in 1964 by Galleria Schwarz, Milan, the lithograph signed with initials and numbered "E.A. I/II" in pencil (Schwarz calls for 6 artist"s proofs, the edition was 10), co-published by Editions Galerie des IV Mouvements and Galleria Arturo Schwarz, Paris and Milan, the lithograph framed.
Andrew Strauss and Timothy Baum of the Man Ray Expertise Committee have confirmed the authenticity of this work under reference 00610-O-2025 and that the edition of this work will be included in the Catalogue of Objects and Sculpture of Man Ray, currently in preparation.
