Art Institute of Chicago
Invention
Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky) · 1916
Provenance
Ownership history
- Muriel Kallis Newman, Chicago, c. 1942; given by her to the Art Institute, 1980.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, The Daniel Gallery, Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Man Ray, December 1916-16 January 1917, no. 8 or 9.
- New York, The Daniel Gallery, Man Ray, November 17-December 1, 1919, no. 13.
- Paris, Librairie Six, Exposition Dada Man Ray, December 3-31, 1921, no. 3.
- Tokyo, ASAHI Shimbun, Masterworks of Modern Art from The Art Institute of Chicago; traveled to Nagaoka, Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, April 20–May 29, 1994; Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, June 10–July 29, 1994; Yokahama Museum of Art, August 6–September 25, 1994.
Literature
Published references
- “Man Ray,” La Révolution Surréaliste: la revue la plus scandaleuse du monde, no. 11.
- Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, Man Ray, Paintres Nouveaux 36 (Paris, 1924), p. 25 (ill.).
- Arturo Schwarz, Man Ray (New York, 1977), p. 37, fig. 33.
- Francis Naumann, “Man Ray and America: The New York and Ridgefield years: 1907-1921,” Ph.D. dissertation, City University of New York, New York, 1988 (UMI), pp. 519-20, 584-86.
- Stephanie D'Alessandro and Stephen C. Pinson, Man Ray: When Objects Dream, exh. cat. (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2025), 91 (color ill.).
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