Rayograph
Artist
Man Ray
(American, 1890 - 1976)
Date1925
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 15 1/4 × 10 11/16 inches (38.74 × 27.15 cm)
Mount: 18 15/16 × 13 inches (48.1 × 33.02 cm)
Mount: 18 15/16 × 13 inches (48.1 × 33.02 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.402
SignedSigned on image recto, lower right corner, in pencil: "Man Ray / 1925".
InscribedOn mount recto, lower right, in pencil: "To my first Hollywood friend / E.A. Adams / Man Ray 1941";
Per previous entry, artist's stamp "...8, rue du Val-de-Grace, Paris" on print verso but could not confirm as photograph is hinged along perimeter to mount.
Markingsnone
On View
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DescriptionPhotogram of an object with ridges on one long edge next to a round object with smaller dark circles inside of it.Exhibition HistoryRotation 1. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, June 17 – October 25, 2007, no cat.
Rotation 7. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, December 7, 2009 – May 17, 2010, no cat.
Rotation 11. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, September 17, 2011 – March 18, 2012, no cat.
World War I and the Rise of Modernism. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, January 9 – October 18, 2015, no cat.
Man Ray was one of the most experimental and influential artists of his time. While working in Paris in 1921-22, he began exploring the artistic possibilities of the photogram, a one-of-a-kind shadow image produced directly on photographic paper without the use of a camera. His rayographs (as he termed them) are classic Surrealist creations-at once the trace of the real and the stuff of dreams.
Copyright© Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY / ADAGP, Paris
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