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Moving Sculpture

Man Ray

Moving Sculpture

1919

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Man Ray

Moving Sculpture

1919

Physical Qualities Gelatin silver print, Image/Sheet: 171 x 238 mm. (6 3/4 x 9 3/8 in.)
Credit Line Purchase with exchange funds from the Edward Joseph Gallagher III Memorial Collection; and partial gift of George H. Dalsheimer, Baltimore
Object Number 1988.434
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, "Master American Photographs," January 29 - April 8, 1987

Washington DC, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, " Perpetual Motif: The Art of Man Ray," December 2, 1988 - February 20, 1989, plus travel: Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art, March 17 - May 28, 1989; Houston, The Menil Collection, June 30 - September 17, 1989; and Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, October 14, 1989 - January 7, 1990

Mason Klein, "Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention," The Jewish Museum, New York 15 November 2009 - 14 March 2010, p.137, fig. 5.
Klein, Mason, "Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention," New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009, ill. p.137, fig. 5.
Martin, Jean-Hubert, "Man Ray: Photographs" (London: Thames & Hudson, 1982), ill. 174
Arturo Schwartz, "Man Ray: The Rigour of Imagination" (New York: Rizzoli, 1977), fig. 384 p. 245.

Inscribed: Verso: at upper left, in graphite: "Man Ray"; at upper right, in graphite: "8th St. 1920"; at lower left, in graphite: "9 1/4 . 6 5/8"

Markings: Verso: stamped at center, in black ink: "MAN RAY / 31bis, RUE / CAMPAGNE / PREMIÈRE / PARIS XIVe"

Artist

Man Ray

1889–1975

American, 1890-1976
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