Man Ray

Non-Euclidean Object

UK: Greenford Park Warehouse

Estimate

25,000 - 35,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Collection of the Sonabend Family

Man Ray

1890 – 1976

Non-Euclidean Object

inscribed Man Ray, numbered 1/9 and incised with two silver hallmarks (on the polyhedral element)

silver polyhedron, rubber tubing, and steel cylinder mounted on a wooden base

height: 48 cm. 18⅞ in.

Conceived in 1932; this example created in 1973. This work is number 1 from an edition of 9 plus artist’s proofs.

Andrew Strauss and Timothy Baum of the Man Ray Expertise Committee have confirmed the authenticity of this work under reference 00470-O-2025 and that the edition of this work will be included in the Catalogue of Objects and Sculpture of Man Ray, currently in preparation.

Charles Sonabend, London

Thence by descent to the present owner

Exh. Cat., Paris, Galerie Pierre Colle, Exposition Surréaliste, 1933, no. 62, n.p., another version illustrated (titled Brevet S.G.D.G.)

Jean-Hubert Martin (ed.), Man Ray, Objets de mon affection, Paris, 1983, no. 42, pp. 52 and 144, another version illustrated

Exh. Cat., Washington D.C., National Museum of American Art, Perpetual Motif, The Art of Man Ray, 1988, no. 214, p. 253, another version illustrated

Exh. Cat., Washington D.C., The Phillips Collection; Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek and Jerusalem, The Israel Museum, Man Ray, Human Equations. A Journey from Mathematics to Shakespeare, 2015-16, fig. 147, pp. 208-10 and 212, another version illustrated in colour