Lot 4
  • 4

Man Ray

Estimate
18,000 - 25,000 EUR
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Description

  • Man Ray
  • STILL LIFE
  • huile sur toile
  • 35,4 x 32,8 cm ; 13 7/8 x 12 7/8 in.

Provenance

Daniel Gallery, New York (acquis de l'artiste)
Acquis du précédent par le grand-père du propriétaire actuel en 1917

Exhibited

(probablement) New York, Daniel Gallery, Man Ray, 1915

Literature

Montclair Art Museum (New Jersey) & The Baltimore Museum of Art (Maryland), ed., Cézanne and American Modernism, 2009-10, reproduit p. 277 (portant une signature et une date apocryphes)

Condition

Executed on canvas, partially laid down on panel. There are some fluorescences in the upper part of the composition. Otherwise this work is in good condition. Please note that the work was signed Man Ray and dated 1913 but this was inadvertently removed during the cleaning of the painting.
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Catalogue Note

oil on canvas. Painted in Ridgefield, New Jersey in 1913.