Lot 138
  • 138

Man Ray

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 EUR
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Description

  • Man Ray
  • Le Pied dans le Pied (Dadamade)
  • collage: signed Man Ray (on the leather sole), inscribed Dadamade (centre) and printed with the title LE PIED DANS LE PIED (lower right)
    book: signed by Georges Hugnet and numbered 2 on the justification page
  • collage: leather insoles mounted on paper
  • sheet size: 24.2 x 16 cm; 9 1/2 x 6 1/4 in.

Provenance

Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 9, 2001, lot 240
Acquired at the above sale by Dr. Arthur Brandt

Exhibited

Boone, Turchin Center for the Arts, The Omnipotent Dream: Man Ray, Confluences and Influences, 2003, illustrated in the catalogue p. 16, listed p. 36
Hartford, The Wadsworth Atheneum, Dalí, Picasso and the Surrealist Vision, 2005
Ithaca, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, A Private Eye: Dada, Surrealism and More from the Brandt Collection, 2006, illustrated in the catalogue p. 90

Literature

Jean-Hubert Martin, Rosalind Krauss, Brigitte Hermann, Man Ray: Objets de mon Affection, Sculptures, Objets, Catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1983, no. 126, p. 154, listed

Condition

Collage on folded cream wove paper (the frontiscipe of a book). The elements are stable. Attached to the mount to all four corners and floating in its mount. Some surface scuffs to the light brown leather and a crease at the tip of the toe. There is some nicks to the lower right corner to the sheet. Book: the first plate of the cover is slightly undulating (possibly due to humidity). Otherwise this work is in very good original condition.
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Catalogue Note

This object collage was made to accompany the deluxe edition of 30 copies of the book by Georges Hugnet, L'Aventure Dada, Paris, Galerie de l'Institut, 1957, which is also included in this lot.