Man Ray
Le cadeau, 1921 / 1974
Iron and brass nails
6 1/2 × 4 × 3 1/4 in
16.5 × 10.2 × 8.3 cm
16.5 × 10.2 × 8.3 cm
This work is from the edition of 5000 produced at the Mirano Foundry, Venice and published by Luciano Anselmino,
Sold with numbered card and original packaging
Man Ray was a key figure of Dada and Surrealism , one of the few Americans associated with either movement. Born Emmanuel Radnitzky, the artist adopted his pseudonym in 1909...
Man Ray was a key figure of Dada and Surrealism, one of the few Americans associated with either movement. Born Emmanuel Radnitzky, the artist adopted his pseudonym in 1909 and—while he also worked across painting, sculpture, video, and printmaking—became renowned for his striking, sensual black-and-white photographs. A number of his portraits—such as Larmes (Tears) (ca. 1932), which features a woman “crying” glass bead tears, and his pictures of Kiki de Montparnasse—are icons of 20th-century art. Man Ray also embraced technical experimentation; he used solarization and made Rayographs (an eponym for his photograms) as he pushed the boundaries of avant-garde photography. At auction, his work has sold for seven figures, and his paintings have fetched particularly high prices. Man Ray is represented in the collections of such institutions as the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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