Live Auction 17878The Face of the Century: Photographs from a Private Collection
MAN RAY (1890–1976)
Lot 132

MAN RAY (1890–1976)

Mathematical Object, 1934–1935

Closed2 April 2019

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USD 20,000

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MAN RAY (1890–1976)
Mathematical Object, 1934–1935
gelatin silver print, mounted on board
stamped 'MAN RAY - 8 RUE/DU VAL-DE-GRACE/PARIS 5e - FRANCE/DANTON 92 - 25' [Manford M9] (verso); credited, titled and dated on affixed gallery label (frame backing)
image/sheet: 11 5/8 x 8 5/8 in. (29.5 x 22 cm.)
mount: 22 x 18 1/8 in. (56 x 46 cm.)

The Collection of Juliet Man Ray;
Robert Miller Gallery, New York;
Galerie Montaigne, Paris;
acquired from the above by the present owner.

Specialist note

This photograph depicts a wire model that is intended to ‘visualize a mathematical object of extreme symmetry' (Man Ray Human Equations, p. 96). In Man Ray’s painting Antony and Cleopatra, the model serves as the tumultuous relationship between the two protagonists of that play.