LOT DETAILS

Materials:

pen and India ink on paper

Measurements:

13.82 in. (35.10 cm.) (height) by 10.04 in. (25.50 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed, dated and inscribed 'Man Ray 1937 London' (lower right)

Exhibited:

Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Man Ray, September - November 1971, no. 104, p. 137 (illustrated p. 65); this exhibition later travelled to Paris, Musée national d’art moderne, January - February 1972; and Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, March - April 1972. New York, The New York Cultural Center, Man Ray, Inventor, Painter, Poet, December 1974 - March 1975, no. 95d. Milan, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Man Ray: Carte varie e variabili, December 1983 - January 1984, no. 74, p. 127.

Literature:

P. Eluard & Man Ray, Les Mains Libres, Paris, 1937, p. 129 (illustrated). Exh. cat., Man Ray, l'occhio e il suo doppio: Dipinti, collages, disegni, invenzioni fotografiche, oggetti d'affezione, libri, cinema, Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, 1975, p. 113 (illustrated; 'titled Disegno per Les mains libres'). A. Schwarz, Man Ray, The Rigour of Imagination, London, 1977, no. 96, pp. 64 & 362 (illustrated p. 91). J.-C. Gateau, Paul Eluard et la peinture surréaliste (1910-1939), Geneva, 1982, pp. 260 & 263.

Provenance:

Studio Marconi, Milan. Private collection, Milan, by whom acquired from the above by 1971, and thence by descent to the present owner.