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Lot 206 | Man Ray | First Steps in 1920

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04.12.2025 - ca.11:19 o'clock
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RAY, MAN
1890 Philadelphia - 1976 Paris

Title: First Steps in 1920.
Subtitle: Portfolio of 9 photographs.
Date: Ca. 1920/1971.
Technique: Each a gelatin silver print on Agfa.
Picture size: Different dimensions.
Sheet size: 24 x 30 cm or 30 x 24 cm.
Notation: One sheet signed. Each numbered and stamped with studio stamp on the verso.
Publisher: Edition Luciano Anselmino, Turin (publisher).
Number: Ex. 8/8.
Frame: Each framed.

Includes prints of the following photographs:
- Mina Loy, 1918
- Tristan Tzara, 1921
- Integration of Shadows, 1919
- Compass, 1920
- Transatlantic, 1920 (signed)
- Coat - Stand, 1920
- Portrait, 1920
- L'Enigme d'Isidore Ducasse, 1920
- L'Inquetude, 1920

Provenance:
- Attilio Codogniato, Venice
- Collection Egidio Marzona, Bielefeld
- Private collection, Germany

Exhibition:
- Kunsthalle Bielefeld, 1998

Literature:
- Janus: Le Grandi Monografie. Pittori d'oggi: Man Ray, Milan 1977, plate 172 (different copy)
- Martin, Jean-Hubert/Hermann, Brigitte/Kraus, Rosalind: Man Ray. Objets de mon affection, Paris 1983, cat. no. 26, ill. p. 38 (different copy)

- Man Ray is a key figure in Dadaism and Surrealism
- The portfolio was published in a very small edition, of which only a few complete copies are still available on the market
- 'First Steps in 1920' comprises nine experimental photographs from the early 1920s
- Combines portraiture and object study - Symbolises Man Ray's idea of making the visible an expression of the unconscious
Contact:
Martina Janke
Modern, Post War & Contemporary Art
+49 221925862306
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Man Ray   USA   Dadaism   Surrealism   Classic Photographs   Modern Art   Photographs   1920s   Celebrities   Photography   Gelatin silver print  
Stock Id: 82030-1

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