Photographs
Photographs
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October 14, 02:01 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
MAN RAY
1890 - 1976
'JEAN COCTEAU WITH SELF-PORTRAIT WIRE STRUCTURE', CA.1925
Silver print on postcard. Annotated 'Je vais prévenir Fraigneau' in ink in the margin. Signed and annotated 'Il y a en vous quelque chose de dénoué de merveilleux qui m'a mis beaucoup de douceur. Jean' in black ink on the verso. Matted and framed.
Image 10.7 x 8 cm (4¼ x 3⅛in.);
sheet 14 x 8.9 cm (5½ x 3½in.)
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Private collection, UK
Man Ray's Paris Portraits: 1921-38, Washington, D.C. Middendorf Gallery, 1989, pl. 32 (variant illustrated).