Property from a Distinguished Private Collection
Man Ray
L'Homme nouveau
Session begins in
March 5, 02:30 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 GBP
Bid
35,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Man Ray
1890 - 1976
L'Homme nouveau
wooden mannequin, wooden egg and painted wooden box with a lid
41.9 by 21.3 by 20.7 cm. 16½ by 8⅜ by 8⅛ in.
Executed in 1964. This work is unique.
Andrew Strauss and Timothy Baum of the Man Ray Expertise Committee have confirmed the authenticity of this work under reference 00630-O-2026 and that it will be included in the Catalogue of Objects & Sculpture of Man Ray, currently in preparation.
Cordier & Ekstrom, New York
Mr and Mrs Frank H. Porter, Cleveland (acquired from the above in November 1965 and at least until 1983)
Estate of Mr and Mrs Frank H. Porter, Cleveland
Christie's, New York, 4 November 2004, lot 337 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above sale)
Sotheby's, London, 6 February 2008, lot 385
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner
New York, Cordier & Ekstrom, Objects of My Affection, 1965
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Man Ray, 1966-67, no. 176, p. 65
The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Spirit of Surrealism, 1979, no. 4, p. 13, illustrated
Washington D.C., National Museum of American Art; Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art; Houston, The Menil Collection and Philadelphia, Museum of Art, Perpetual Motif. The Art of Man Ray, 1988-90
Man Ray, Oggetti d'affezione, Turin, 1970, no. 108, illustrated
Arturo Schwarz, Man Ray. The Rigour of Imagination, London, 1977, no. 253, p. 146, illustrated
Jean-Hubert Martin, ed., Man Ray, Objets de mon affection, Paris, 1983, no. 152, p. 121, illustrated
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