Percolator

1. The artist, New York, Paris, and Los Angeles; sold to Gerald Nordland (1927–2019), Los Angeles in 1947–1948 [this and the following according to phone conversation between Gerald Nordland and Stephanie D’Alessandro, notes in curatorial object file]; sold to Zabriskie Gallery, New York, c. 1988-1989; sold through Timothy Baum to the Art Institute, 1989.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• New York, Daniel Gallery, before 1921.
• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Paintings and Drawings by American Artists Showing the Later Tendencies in Art, Apr. 16–May 15, 1921, not in cat.
• Paris, Librairie Six, Exposition Dada Man Ray, Dec. 3–31. 1921, cat. 34, as Percolator, 1916
• Paris, Galerie Surréaliste, Tableaux de Man Ray et objets des îles, Mar. 26–Apr. 10, 1926, cat. 9, as Percolateur.
• Paris, Galerie Van Leer, Man Ray. Nov. 1929, no cat.
• London, London Gallery, Man Ray, Feb. 14–18, 1939, cat. 11.
• Milan, Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Man Ray, Carte Varie e Variabili, Dec. 1, 1983–Jan. 9, 1984, cat. 247.
• New York, Zabriskie Gallery, Man Ray: The New York Years 1913 to 1921, Nov. 19, 1988–Jan. 6, 1989, no cat. no., as The Filter (Percolator).
• New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Dada, 1915–1923, Nov. 20, 1996–Mar. 2, 1997, no cat.
• Santa Fe, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Debating American Modernism: Stieglitz and Duchamp, 1915–1927, Jan. 24–Apr. 20, 2003, no cat. no; Des Moines, IA, Des Moines Art Center, May 9–Aug. 1, 2003; Chicago, Terra Museum of American Art, Aug. 29–Nov. 30, 2003.
• Fort Worth, TX, Kimbell Art Museum, The Age of Picasso and Matisse: Modern Masters from The Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 6, 2013–Feb. 16, 2014, no cat.
• New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Man Ray: When Objects Dream, Sept. 8, 2025-Feb. 1, 2026, no cat. no., pl. 38.

• Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, Man Ray, Peintres nouveaux (Paris, 1924), vol. 36, p. 35 (ill.).
• “Man Ray,” London Bulletin 10 (February 1939), 3.
• Arturo Schwarz, Man Ray: The Rigour of Imagination (New York: Rizzoli, 1977), 38, fig. 34.
• Arturo Schwarz, ed., Man Ray, carte varie e variabili, exh. cat. (Milan: Gruppo Editoriale Fabbri, 1983), 67, no. 74 (ill.)
• 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), 279-280, no. 288/106.
• Francis Naumann, New York Dada:, 1915-23 (New York: Abrams, 1994), 83 (ill.).
• James N. Wood and Teri J. Edelstein, The Art Institute of Chicago: Twentieth-Century Painting and Sculpture (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1996), 42 (ill.).
• Francis M. Naumann, et al. Making Mischief: Dada Invades New York, exh. cat. (Whitney Museum of American Art, 1996), 226, 227 (ill.), 293.
• Stephanie D'Alessandro and Stephen C. Pinson, Man Ray: When Objects Dream, exh. cat. (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2025), 71, 77, pl. 38 (color ill.), 292, 295, 296, 300, pl. 38.

Departure of Summer

Art Institute of Chicago

Chess Set

Art Institute of Chicago

What We All Lack

Art Institute of Chicago

Invention

Art Institute of Chicago

Cadeau (Gift)

Art Institute of Chicago

Return to Reason (Retour a la Raison)

Art Institute of Chicago

Nancy Cunard

Art Institute of Chicago

Marie-Berthe Aurenche, Max Ernst, Lee Miller, Man Ray

Art Institute of Chicago

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