1974
Born Emmanuel Radnitzky, Man Ray was a famous American filmmaker, painter and photographer. His career is distinctive, above all, for the success he achieved in both the United States and Europe. First maturing at the center of American modernism in the 1910s, he made Paris his home in the 1920s and 1930s. In the 1940s, he crossed the Atlantic once again and spent periods in New York and Hollywood.
Ray’s art spanned painting, sculpture, film, prints and poetry, and in his long career, he worked in styles influenced by Cubism, Futurism, Dada and Surrealism. He also successfully navigated the worlds of commercial and fine art and came to be a sought-after fashion photographer. Ray is perhaps most remembered for his photographs of the inter-war years, in particular, the camera-less pictures he called "Rayographs," but he always regarded himself first and foremost as a painter. Although he matured as an abstract painter, Ray eventually disregarded the traditional superiority painting held over photography and happily moved between different forms. Dada and Surrealism were important in encouraging this attitude; they also persuaded him that the idea that motivates a work of art was more important than the work of art itself.
André Breton once described Ray as a pre-Surrealist, something which accurately describes his natural affinity for the style. Even before the movement had coalesced, in the mid-1920s, his work, influenced by Marcel Duchamp, had Surrealist undertones. He would continue to draw on the movement's ideas throughout his life. Ray's work has ultimately been very important in popularizing Surrealism.
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De l'Origine des Espèces par Voie de Sélection Irrationelle: Visage
By Man Ray
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this color lithograph. Artist's proof, aside from the edition of 180. Signed and inscribed "EA" in pencil. Printed by Mourlot, Paris. Published by Leon Amie...
Color, Lithograph
Modulor
By Le Corbusier
Located in New York, NY
Color lithograph on cream wove paper, 1956. Edition of 200. Printed by Mourlout, Paris.
Lithograph, Color
Morceaux choisis d'après Ingres, I
By Marcel Duchamp
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this etching and aquatint on Japon nacré. Schwarz's state a (of c). The deluxe edition of 30 on Japon nacré, aside from the edition of 150. Signed and numbe...
Etching, Aquatint
How to Make a Rainbow
By Joseph Cornell
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this color screenprint with varnish and stencil. Artist's proof, aside from the edition of 125. Signed and inscribed "A.P." in pencil. Printed by Styria Stu...
Varnish, Color, Screen, Stencil
Composition
By Conrad Marca-Relli 1
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this color lithograph on wove paper. Signed, dated and numbered 23/90 in pencil.
Color, Lithograph
Le Colosse
By Salvador Dalí
Located in New York, NY
Color drypoint. Signed by the artist in pencil lower right. Numbered 44/100 in pencil lower left. Published by Editions d'Art de Francony, Paris. Catalogue raisonne reference: Fi...
Drypoint
Oggetto Matematico (Mathematical Object )
By Man Ray
Located in Wien, 9
Man Ray is considered a representative of Dadaism and Surrealism. He was born in Philadelphia in 1890. Man Ray was active as a painter, object artist, photographer and film director. His art assemblages deal with questions about the unconscious, the apparent and the mythical. What is present behind what is represented or not is Ray's preoccupation in conceiving his experiments with different materials and techniques. He has his first solo exhibition at the Daniel Gallery in New York. Together with Marcel Duchamp he founded the DADA group in New York. In 1921 Ray moved to Paris, where he worked in the Montparnasse environment with artists such as Dalí, Ernst, Matisse, Miró, Mondrian and Tanguy. In 1922 there is a split in Paris between the Dadaists and the Surrealists. Man Ray joins the co-founders of Surrealism. National Socialism, which also showed its effects in Paris in the late 1930s, prompted the Jewish artist to decide to leave the country. After a major appearance at Georges Wildenstein's Beaux-Arts Gallery in Paris in the exhibition "Exposition Internationale du Surrealisme", he fled to New York via Spain and Portugal. After the Second World War, he brought the artistic collection he had left in Paris to the USA. As he could not enjoy the success and prestige in America that he had enjoyed in Paris, he returned to Paris in 1951. In 1958, the artist took part in the exhibition "Dada. Documents of a Movement" at the Kunstverein Düsseldorf and in the large Dada exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. His first major retrospective is shown at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1966. Man Ray died in Paris in 1976, leaving behind the "Man Ray Trust", a foundation established by his widow. Between 1934-36 Man Ray photographed...
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Galerie Marion Meyer By Man Ray
By Man Ray
Located in Dubai, Dubai
Galerie Marion Meyer By Man Ray 1967 Medium: Offset Lithograph Paper Size: 25.25 x 17.75 inches ( 64 x 45 cm ) Image Size: 22.75 x 17.75 inches ( 58 x 45 cm ) Edition Size: Unk...
Lithograph, Offset
Mythologia Moderna II
By Man Ray
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Man Ray (American, 1890-1976) Title: Mythologia Moderna II Year: 1969 Medium: Color lithograph Edition: numbered 46/175 in pencil Paper: Arches watermarked Image siz...
Lithograph
In Cima Del Mundo
By Man Ray
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork in an original color lithograph by artist Man Ray (American, 1890-1976) It is signed and numbered 7/110 in pencil by the artist. The image size is 19 x 16 inches, and th...
Lithograph
Man Ray, Illustration for the Novel, Aurelien, 1980 (after)
By Man Ray
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite heliogravure after Man Ray (1890–1976), titled Illustration for the Novel, Aurelien, by Louis Aragon, originates from the 1980 folio Man Ray, Electa Editrice Portfolio...
Lithograph
MAN RAY 'Galerie Marion Meyer' 1967- Offset Lithograph
By Man Ray
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 25.25 x 17.75 inches ( 64.135 x 45.085 cm ) Image Size: 22.75 x 17.75 inches ( 57.785 x 45.085 cm ) Framed: No Condition: B: Very Good Condition, with signs of handling o...
Offset
Donated by John Pritzker, the collection includes works by Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and more.
One of the 20th century's most important female photographers is finally being recognized as a daring and seminal artist.
