Live Auction 21472The Surrealist World of Rosalind Gersten Jacobs and Melvin Jacobs
MAN RAY (1890-1976)
Lot 657 THE SURREALIST WORLD OF ROSALIND GERSTEN JACOBS AND MELVIN JACOBS

MAN RAY (1890-1976)

Blue Bread

Closed14 May 2022

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MAN RAY (1890-1976)
Blue Bread
signed, dedicated, inscribed and dated 'for Roz and for Mel Blue bread is the favorite food of Blue Beard I ate all of it - thanks Man Ray Oct 13-65' (on the inside of the lid)
black felt-tip pen on painted papier mache box
4 1⁄8 x 18 3⁄8 x 5 5⁄8 in. (10.4 x 46.6 x 14.3 cm.)
Executed in New York on 13 October 1965 at a dinner party in the Jacobs home

Gift from the artist to the late owners at a dinner party, October 1965.

Specialist note

Blue Bread was an improvised gift Man Ray created for Roz and Mel at a dinner they hosted for him on 13 October 1965. The artist drew an eye and inscribed the inside of a baguette-shaped papier mache box the Jacobses had spray painted blue and were using as the centerpiece of their dining table.