Photographs, Including Works from the Collection of Ernesto Esposito
Photographs, Including Works from the Collection of Ernesto Esposito
Man Ray
Yves Tanguy
Lot Closed
November 16, 12:01 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
Man Ray
1890 - 1976
Yves Tanguy
gelatin silver print, signed and dated in ink on the image, title and date in pencil on the reverse, framed, 1936
image: 22.8 by 17.9 cm (9 by 6⅞ in.)
frame: 30 by 24 cm (11¾ by 9½ in.)
Collection Walter Darby Bannard, Miami, Florida
By descent to the present owner
Man Ray Photographs (New York, 1982), p. 81
Man Ray: Photography and Its Double (London, 1998), pp. 82-3
Man Ray Photographs: Paris - Hollywood - Paris (Munich, 2011), p. 245
From 1925 to 1939, Man Ray would relentlessly photograph, revisit, and retouch studio portraits that he took of his social circle. Through Yves Tanguy’s impish gaze, electrified hair, and mischievous grin, this portrait reflects the radical essence of the Dadaist-Surrealists of Montparnasse. This portrait of Yves Tanguy was part of Man Ray’s photomontage The Surrealist Chess Board (1934), which featured 20 portraits of the Surrealists and was published in Petite Anthologie poétique du Surréalisme.
This photograph comes originally from the collection of Walter Darby Bannard (1934-2016), a leading figure in the development of Color Field Painting in the late 1950s and a professor of Art and Art History at the University of Miami. A print of this portrait of Tanguy is in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum [84.XM.1000.79]. At the time of this writing, no other print of this image has appeared at auction in over 30 years.