Live Auction 8051Impressionist / Modern Day Sale
Man Ray (1890-1976)
Lot 423

Man Ray (1890-1976)

Emak Bakia

Closed8 February 2012

Price Realised

GBP 30,000

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Man Ray (1890-1976)
Emak Bakia
signed 'Man Ray' (on the base)
bronze with silver patina and synthetic hair
Height: 18 1/8 in. (46 cm.)
Originally conceived in wood in 1926 and cast in an edition of ten in 1970

Galerie Marconi, Milan.
Galerie Levy, Hamburg.
Private collection, Germany, by whom acquired from the above in November 1988; sale, Christie's, London, 19 June 2007, lot 451.

Specialist note

The original wood version of the present lot features in the 1926 film of the same title directed by Man Ray.