LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

39.37 in. (100.00 cm.) (height) by 31.50 in. (80.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

Signed MAN RAY and dated JAN 1916 (lower right), titled PROMENADE ( lower left)

Exhibited:

New York, The Anderson Galleries, The Forum Exhibition of Modern American Painters, 1916, no. 38 (as Invention - Promenade) New York, The Daniel Gallery, Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Man Ray, 1916-17, no. 3 (as Promenade) London, New Burlington Galleries, The International Surrealist Exhibition, 1936, no. 308 Possibly Paris, Jeu de Paume, Origines et développement de l'art international indépendant, 1937 London, Institute of Contemporary Arts, An Exhibition, Retrospective and Prospective of the works of Man Ray, 1959, no. 11 Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Man Ray, 1966, no. 19 (incorrectly dated as 1915 and correctly dated to 1916 in the Addenda and Errata) New York, The New York Cultural Center, Man Ray, Inventor / Painter / Poet, 1974-75, no. 16 (incorrectly dated as 1915) London, The Institute of Contemporary Arts, Man Ray, 1975, no. 14 (incorrectly dated as 1915) Washington, D.C., National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art; Houston, The Menil Collection; Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Perpetual Motif, The Art of Man Ray, 1988-90, fig. 50, p. 65, illustrated in color (incorrectly dated as 1915), p. 122, illustrated (in photograph) Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau and London, Royal Academy of Arts, American Art in the 20th Century, Painting and Sculpture, 1913-1993, 1993, no. 5, illustrated in color London, Serpentine Gallery, Man Ray, 1995, no number, illustrated Montclair, Montclair Art Museum; Athens (GA), Georgia Museum of Art; Chicago, Terra Museum of American Art, Conversion to Modernism: The Early Work of Man Ray, 2003, no. 153, p. 144, illustrated in color London, Tate Modern and Barcelona, Museu Nacional d’Art de Catlunya, Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia, 2008, fig. 13, p. 20, illustrated in color New York, The Jewish Museum, Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention, 2009-10, fig. 48, p. 44, illustrated in color Lugano, Museo d’Arte Lugano, Man Ray, 2011, p. 51, illustrated in color

Literature:

Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, Man Ray, Paris, 1929, p. 27, illustrated Paul Wescher, “Man Ray as Painter,” Magazine of Art, January 1953, pp. 33-34 Herbert Read (ed.), Surrealism, New York, 1971, fig. 84, following p. 208, illustrated Arturo Schwarz, Man Ray, The Rigour of Imagination, London, 1977, pp. 33, 37, 75, discussed Exhibition catalogue: Man Ray Photographe, Paris, 1981, introduction by Jean-Hubert Martin, fig. 255, p. 202, illustrated (in photograph of the artist in his Campagne Première studio) Roland penrose, Scrap Book, 1900-1981, London, 1981, fig. 164, p. 67, illustrated (in photograph of the London 1936 exhibition) Jean-Hubert Martin, Brigitte Hermann, Rosalind Krauss, Objets de mon affection, Man Ray, Sculpture et Objets, Catalogue Raisonné, Paris, 1983, pp. 170-71, illustrated (in photograph of the Campagne Première studio) Man Ray, Selbstporträt / Eine Illustrierte Autobiographie, Munich, 1983, p. 143, illustrated (in photograph) Man Ray, Self Portrait, Boston, 1988, p. 121, partially illustrated (in photograph)

Provenance:

Dr. & Mrs. Paul Wescher, Santa Monica (acquired from the artist circa 1948) Mary Stothart-Wescher, Santa Monica (sale: Christie's, New York, May 19, 1978, lot 29) Galerie Tarica, Paris (acquired at the above sale) Aquired from the above by the present owners