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MAN RAY and RENÉ BASSET (ACTIVE 1960s)

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MAN RAY and RENÉ BASSET (ACTIVE 1960s)
Coin du Studio rue Campagne Première; and Juliet and Man Ray in the rue Ferou studio
2 gelatin silver prints. 1926; and 1960s. The first titled in an unknown hand in pencil and annotated (Dancer-coll. Breton) in an unknown hand in ink on the mount; Art News credit stamp on the reverse of the mount; the second with René Basset 21, rue Childebert, Lyon credit stamp on the verso.
9 x 6 5/8in. (22.8 x 16.9cm.); and 4 3/8 x 6 5/8in. (11.2 x 16.9cm.) (2)

Property from the Estate of Juliet Man Ray, The Man Ray Trust & The Family of Juliet Man Ray, Sotheby's, London, 23 March 1995, lots 103 and 553.

Specialist note

The view of the artist's studio on the rue Campagne Première shows the object Dancer/Danger of 1920, formerly in the collection of André Breton. This image was published in Vu, 23 May 1928.