Man Ray

Portrait of Marcel Duchamp

Lot closes

October 1, 06:00 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 USD

Current Bid

7,000 USD

1 Bid

Reserve met

Lot Details

Description

Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer

Man Ray

1890 - 1976

Portrait of Marcel Duchamp

signed and dated in ink (on the image)

gelatin silver print, flush-mounted

9⅞ by 7⅞ in.

25.1 by 20 cm.

Executed in 1949.

Please note that this lot will not be on view during the sale exhibition. It is located at our Long Island City, New York storage facility. If you would like to examine it in person before the sale please contact Juliette Saylor at Juliette.Saylor@sothebys.com

Gift of the photographer to artist Max Ernst

Collection of William N. Copley, Los Angeles/New York

Acquired from the above in the 1990s by the present owner

Alisa Carroll, Art House: The Collaboration of Chara Schreyer & Gary Hutton, New York, 2016, pp. 5, 102, 218 and 220, illustrated

Douglas Fogle and Hannake Skerath, eds., Making Strange: The Chara Schreyer Collection, New York, 2021, pp. 281 and 416, illustrated

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Beyond Real: Surrealist Photography and Sculpture from Bay Area Collections, March – May 2006