Modern Discoveries
Modern Discoveries
Property from a Private British Collection
Man Ray
Etoile de verre
No reserve
Lot Closed
October 19, 02:28 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private British Collection
Man Ray
1890 - 1976
Etoile de verre
signed Man Ray on the mount (lower right) and indistinctly incised (lower left)
pasted gem (diamond-cut glass), ink and chalk on sandpaper mounted on card
sandpaper sheet: 18 by 28cm., 7⅛ by 11in.
original mount size: 24 by 33cm., 9½ by 13in.
Framed: 42.6 by 50.1cm., 16¾ by 19¾in.
Executed in 1965 in three editions of ten examples each; This work most likely relates to the third edition and is an example aside from the edition.
Andrew Strauss and Timothy Baum of the Man Ray Expertise Committee have confirmed the authenticity of this work and that the edition of this work will be included in the Objects & Sculptures of Man Ray, currently in preparation.
Private Collection, Italy (acquired from the above between 1970-78. Sold: Sotheby's, London, 20th March 1996, lot 71)
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner
Jean-Hubert Martin, Rosalind Krauss & Brigitte Hermann, Man Ray, Objets de mon affection, Sculptures et Objets, Catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1983, edition catalogued p. 156, no. 159