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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Do Not Destroy (Object Indestructable)
By Man Ray
Located in New York, NY
Wood and metal metronome with printed eye. Initialed and numbered 16/200 in felt tip pen and ink on printed label on bottom of object. Published by the New York Cultural center. Con...
Metal
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
Due Figure
By Man Ray
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Man Ray (American, 1890-1976) Title: Due Figure Year: 1968 Medium: Color lithograph Edition: Inscribed E.A (Epreuve d'Artiste) in pencil Paper: Arches Image size: 18.5 x...
Lithograph
$2,500
H 14 in W 12.75 in
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
$1,900
H 11.03 in W 3.15 in D 1.97 in
French Contemporary Art by Frédérick Mazoir - Magmatisme 06
By Frédérick Mazoir
Located in Paris, IDF
Forged stainless steel
Stainless Steel
$1,800
H 9.06 in W 2.76 in D 1.58 in
French Contemporary Art by Frédérick Mazoir - Magmatisme 07
By Frédérick Mazoir
Located in Paris, IDF
Forged stainless steel
Stainless Steel
$960
H 8.27 in W 3.55 in D 1.97 in
French Contemporary Art by Frédérick Mazoir - Magmatisme 02
By Frédérick Mazoir
Located in Paris, IDF
Forged steel
Steel
$1,800
H 11.42 in W 7.09 in D 3.15 in
French Contemporary Art by Frédérick Mazoir - Magmatisme 19
By Frédérick Mazoir
Located in Paris, IDF
Forged steel
Steel
Steel Sculpture by Nicolas Vlavianos, 1970
By Nicolas Vlavianos
Located in Rio De Janeiro, RJ
Steel sculpture signed and dated Vlavianos in perfect conditions.
Steel
$900
H 8.67 in W 2.37 in D 2.37 in
French Contemporary Art by Frédérick Mazoir - Magmatisme 04
By Frédérick Mazoir
Located in Paris, IDF
Forged steel
Steel
Visage
By Pablo Picasso
Located in New York, NY
An early and stunningly beautiful hand-painted ceramic bowl created by Picasso in 1955, Visage measures 5 inches (12.8 cm) in diameter and is Inscribed 'Edition Picasso/Madoura' (bot...
Ceramic, Earthenware
Untitled
By Donald Judd
Located in New York, NY
Created by Donald Judd as an aquatint on wove paper, Untitled, 1978-79 is hand-signed and numbered in pencil, measuring 40 x 29 1/2 (101.6 x 74.9 cm.), unframed, and is from the edit...
Aquatint
Bent Blue
By Jasper Johns
Located in New York, NY
A whimsical image in black and white, created by Jasper Johns in 1971, Bent Blue is an original lithograph, hand-signed and numbered in pencil, measuring 26 x 20 in. (66 x 51 cm), f...
Lithograph
Untitled
By Donald Judd
Located in New York, NY
Created by Donald Judd as an aquatint on wove paper, Untitled, 1978-79 is hand-signed and numbered in pencil, measuring 40 3/8 x 29 5/8 (102.7 x 75.3 cm.), unframed, and is from the ...
Aquatint
Deardorff
By Fanny Brennan
Located in New York, NY
Created by Surrealist Fanny Brennan from 1993-96, Deardorff is an original lithograph in colors on wove paper, hand-monogrammed by the artist in pencil and numbered from the edition ...
Lithograph
Almost There
By Al Held
Located in New York, NY
Created by Al Held in 1988, Almost There is an aquatint with hard-ground etching on Somerset paper. Hand-signed, dated, and numbered from the edition of 60 in pencil on the verso, th...
Etching, Aquatint
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.
