Live Auction 23404Man Ray dans la collection Marion Meyer
Man Ray (1890-1976)
Lot 348

Man Ray (1890-1976)

Jean Cocteau, Paris, c. 1922

Closed11 April 2024

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EUR 6,930

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Man Ray (1890-1976)
Man Ray
Jean Cocteau, Paris, c. 1922
tirage argentique
signé à l'encre 'Man Ray Paris 23' (image); cachet du photographe 'Man Ray 31bis, rue Campagne Première, Paris' et diverses annotations au crayon et à l'encre (verso)
image/feuille : 28.4 x 22.7 cm.

gelatin silver print
signed in ink 'Man Ray Paris 23' (image); stamped photographer's credit 'Man Ray 31bis, rue Campagne Première Paris' and variously annotated in pencil and in ink (verso)
image/sheet : 11 1/8 x 8 7/8 in.

Raoul Leven, Paris.
Collection Marion Meyer, Paris (acquis directement auprès de celui-ci).

Specialist note

The stamp on the verso of this photograph has been identified as M2 in Steven Manford’s book, Behind the photo: the stamps of Man Ray (2009). According to Manford, this early lifetime stamp “may be the first Paris stamp in use. It certainly was in use by the mid-twenties” (p. 19).