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1947Best.-Nr. 91779Paris: Editions Cahier d'art 1947. Fine. Dora Maar Signs Her Own Work Editions Cahier d'art Paris 1947 18.50 x 24.50 cm broché First edition which supposedly had an issue of 500 numbered copies. Gallimard donated the paper required for the production of this book but only 258 copies could be printed rather than the 500 announced in the justification from a note by Paul Éluard. A slight crease to the covers slight marginal sunning primarily affecting the rear cover. Illustrated with 11 photographs of Nusch Éluard by Man Ray and Dora Maar. Le temps déborde is a collection of eleven poems published in 1947 a few months after the sudden and unexpected death of Paul Éluards wife Nusch. A poignant ode to their seventeen years of life together the work is illustrated with striking portraits of Nusch. This exceptional copy is signed by Dora Maar beneath or directly on each of her five photographs. We are aware of only one other copy signed by the photographer and none signed by Man Ray. A rare and beautiful copy. In 1965 paying tribute to his friend Aragon recalled his discovery of this masterpiece: He signed it with an invented name Didier Desroches because he had killed Paul Éluard. I let him talk. What he had shown me of Didier was of a confounding beauty. This slender book which was to appear as the work of an unknown to say merely that in my eyes it surpasses everything Éluard ever signed with his own name is to say too little. I thought so then and I think so today. The attribution of each photograph in the collection to either Man Ray or Dora Maar has long been a source of confusion. Strangely the question seems to attract little scholarly attention: as Mary Ann Caws notes Dora Maars portraits of the Surrealists muse were originally attributed to Man Ray since they were so clearly superb in their construction and realization These photographing women: The scandal of genius Angels of anarchy: women artists and surrealism 2009. This misattribution was also a consequence of the systematic erasure of Dora Maars photographic work which she abandoned at Picassos request. The two series by Dora Maar and Man Ray are further entwined by their shared style and by both artists fascination with Nusch. Audacious framing and subtle interplay of shadow and light reflect the two Surrealist photographers formal innovation. Beyond aesthetic alchemy the three of them were very close at the time of these photographs 1935-1938. For several years they all took part with their partners Ady Fidelin and Paul Eluard in late-summer gatherings in the rustic village of Mougins overlooking Cannes at the invitation of Picasso where they indulged in role play identity and couple exchanges Alicia Ortiz Dujovne Dora Maar. Some of the collections illustrations are well known: Man Rays Nusch with mirror his diptych with her eyes closed and open and the celebrated portrait by Dora Maar illustrating the poem LExtase with her carefully lit face floating in darkness supported only with her fingers an elusive expression in her eyes. In one unforgettable version of the same image Les années vous guettent The years lie in wait. Maar superimposes a silvery spiders web over Nuschs features Louise Baring Dora Maar: Paris in the time of Man Ray Jean Cocteau and Picasso. The resonance of the photograph is all the more powerful since Nusch died early of a heart attack just on the day she was to lunch with Dora Maar for whom it was an irreparable loss. Mary Ann Caws For other photographs attribution had remained uncertain notably the portrait of Nusch bare-breasted and draped in foliage illustrating En vertu de lamour: the absence of a signature supports the attribution to Man Ray. A sublime poetic and artistic tribute featuring the finest portraits of Nusch central figure in Man Ray and Éluards shared imagery and graceful model for Dora Maars most accomplished portraits at last restored to their right Editions Cahier d'art unknown
1925Best.-Nr. 22149Paris ca1925. As issued. Very good. Silver halide photographic print ca1925 that meas. appx. 173 x 230 mm. Signed in the lower right: Man Ray / Paris. It is spot mounted to a sheet of heavy weight paper. The mount bears the following unidentified inscription: "To our old friend Carles / Helen & Guy". Carles is Arthur Beecher Carles a Philadelphia artist who on several occasions prior to 1930 had lengthy stays in Paris and/or at Edward Steichen's home in the village of Voulangis with the financial help of Tyson and friends. Tyson was a one time student of the artist who later established a reputation for his nature studies. Helen was Carroll Tyson's wife. unknown books
1966Best.-Nr. 91822Jean Petithory | Paris 1966 | 26.5 x 30.2 cm | Relié sous étui
1934Best.-Nr. 48711Hartford CT: James Thrall Soby 1934. Near fine. Association copy first edition second issue of Man Ray's extraordinary first monograph - inscribed to friend and muse Joella Bayer whose portrait appears in the book. Man Ray's photobook of "sensuous often dreamlike" photographs and rayographs inscribed to Joella Bayer daughter of poet and artist Mina Loy and wife of designer and photographer Herbert Bayer whose signature and thumbprint are also present. Joella Bayer knew Ray most of his life having been introduced to the artist by her mother in Paris in the 1920s and then growing closer through her first husband the gallerist Julien Levy who frequently exhibited Ray. Ray portrayed or photographed Joella Bayer a number of times during his life most famously in this book where her solarized portrait appears as plate 47. Arranged in five thematic sections PHOTOGRAPHS includes laudatory essays and poems from Ray's surrealist contemporaries André Breton Paul Éluard Rrose Sélavy Marcel Duchamp and Tristan Tzara marking the divisions. Stated "Second Edition" as almost all copies are; in fact it is the second issue of the first edition mislabeled in an attempt "to generate demand where none existed by suggesting the edition had sold out. After replacing the title pages of these copies with one stating second edition the publisher returned them for sale" Roth 80. Uncommon in this condition scarce signed and rare with so strong an association: a remarkable copy of this fragile and important book. 12.25'' x 9''. Text in English and French. Original color photographic wrappers with plastic comb binding. Frontispiece portrait of Man Ray by Picasso. 104 heliogravures. Inscribed by Ray to Joella Bayer on the inside of the front cover: "For Joella / Man Ray." Additionally signed below by her husband Herbert Bayer with his thumbprint. Touches of shelfwear rubbing. Else bright and sound with comb binding entirely intact. James Thrall Soby unknown
1934Best.-Nr. 48711Hartford CT: James Thrall Soby 1934. Near fine. Association copy first edition second issue of Man Ray's extraordinary first monograph - inscribed to friend and muse Joella Bayer whose portrait appears in the book. Man Ray's photobook of "sensuous often dreamlike" photographs and rayographs inscribed to Joella Bayer daughter of poet and artist Mina Loy and wife of designer and photographer Herbert Bayer whose signature and thumbprint are also present. Joella Bayer knew Ray most of his life having been introduced to the artist by her mother in Paris in the 1920s and then growing closer through her first husband the gallerist Julien Levy who frequently exhibited Ray. Ray portrayed or photographed Joella Bayer a number of times during his life most famously in this book where her solarized portrait appears as plate 47. Arranged in five thematic sections PHOTOGRAPHS includes laudatory essays and poems from Ray's surrealist contemporaries André Breton Paul Éluard Rrose Sélavy Marcel Duchamp and Tristan Tzara marking the divisions. Stated "Second Edition" as almost all copies are; in fact it is the second issue of the first edition mislabeled in an attempt "to generate demand where none existed by suggesting the edition had sold out. After replacing the title pages of these copies with one stating second edition the publisher returned them for sale" Roth 80. Uncommon in this condition scarce signed and rare with so strong an association: a remarkable copy of this fragile and important book. 12.25'' x 9''. Text in English and French. Original color photographic wrappers with plastic comb binding. Frontispiece portrait of Man Ray by Picasso. 104 heliogravures. Inscribed by Ray to Joella Bayer on the inside of the front cover: "For Joella / Man Ray." Additionally signed below by her husband Herbert Bayer with his thumbprint. Touches of shelfwear rubbing. Else bright and sound with comb binding entirely intact. James Thrall Soby unknown books
1966Best.-Nr. 91822Paris: Jean Petithory 1966. Fine. Man Ray shoots Surrealist Mannequins Jean Petithory Paris 1966 26.5 x 30.2 cm Relié sous étui First edition one of 37 numbered copies ours one of a few hors commerce copies for collaborators and friends signed by Man Ray on the justification. 15 photographs on watermarked vélin Montgolfier mounted on guards each bearing Man Rays printed studio stamp Épreuve originale atelier Man Ray Paris. The copy exceptionally contains the original subscription prospectus and an invitation to the book launch exhibition opening night organised by Simone Loliée. Publishers binding by the renowned bookbinder Mercher bearing his signature in the negative of the photographic paper on each endpaper and pastedown flat black shagreen spine title author and date stamped in gilt lengthwise photographic boards with gilt background after an original composition by Man Ray specially designed for this work original wrappers preserved black paper slipcase. Illustrated with 15 original photographic prints of the mannequins photographed by Man Ray at the 1938 International Exhibition of Surrealism. The mannequins had been transformed by Man Ray himself Salvador Dalí Oscar Dominguez Marcel Duchamp Max Ernst Espinoza Maurice Henry Marcel Jean Léo Malet André Masson Sonia Mossé Joan Miró Wolfgang Paalen Kurt Seligmann and Yves Tanguy. They were presented within a Surrealist staging by Marcel Duchamp and lighting designed by Man Ray himself. During the 1930s the European Surrealists had a fetishistic interest in simulated woman-female mannequins that they transformed into playful sculptural works of art. In 1938 Man Ray photographed a series of their work at the Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme presented in the unsettling half-light of the Galerie des Beaux-Arts on the rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré. Visitors walking down a corridor on the Rue Surréaliste saw a series of dressmakers mannequins inhabitants of a dreamlike Paris scantily clad or adorned with a jumble of incongruous objects and flanked by street signs bearing highly symbolic names: some real such as the Rue des Vieilles Lanternes where Gérard de Nerval took his own life or the Rue Vivienne where Lautréamont once lived alongside invented ones such as the Rue aux Lèvres the Rue de Tous-les-Diables and the Rue de la Transfusion-de-Sang. The installations of this first international Parisian Surrealist exhibition organised by André Breton and Éluard marked a decisive moment in the history of the movement. For the first time the event dispensed with a straightforward retrospective of individual artists in favour of a series of phantasmagorical stagings live performances and ephemeral artworks prefiguring the modern concepts of installation and happening. Nearly 3000 visitors are said to have thronged to this 1938 Paris exhibition by the light of electric torches: One has the feeling of leaning over certain exhumed walls and of being the first to decipher their signs. Jean Fraysse Le Figaro littéraire 29 January 1938. From Hausmanns sculpture and de Chiricos paintings to the works of Hans Bellmer the mannequin had long occupied a central place in the Dada and Surrealist artistic vocabulary and was cited in Bretons 1924 Manifeste. These woman-objects staged in the spirit of the Musée Grévin offered infinite possibilities for the transformation of the body and the exploration of the unconscious. Some have remained enduringly celebrated such as Le Bâillon vert à bouche de pensée André Massons mannequin enclosed in a birdcage or Duchamps considered the only three-dimensional version of his alter ego Rrose Sélavy taking the form of a man cross-dressed as a woman in the style of Claude Cahun. The mannequin of lesbian artist Sonia Mossé friend of Artaud and photographed by Man Ray with Nusch is her only known artwork and the sole mannequin in the installation created by a woman artist. Man Ray had incorporated Jean Petithory hardcover
Best.-Nr. 3038Paris. Vintage photo. Stamp on the back. 2 the. corners are restored. Vintage photo. Stamp on the back. 10 x 15 cm. Vintage print of the iconic image. unknown
Best.-Nr. 107426Turin Luciano Anselmino 1972. . Limited edition one of 100 copies on Velin d'Arches signed and numbered by the artist on the justification; large folio 63.5 x 45 cm; title-page justification and table of contents 10 pochoir prints in colour after Man Ray loose as issued and unbound in plain wrappers minor spotting to wrapper; in the original black cloth solander box with 'Man Ray' on the spine some minor wear to box otherwise a fine example. Limited edition one of 100 copies on Velin d'Arches signed and numbered by the artist The complete portfolio of 10 pochoir prints signed by the artist on the justification. Man Ray created a series of collages of geometric shapes titled 'Revolving Doors' between 1916 and 1917. They were included in his third solo show at the Daniel Gallery in New York and were installed on a rotating pole that the viewer could spin bringing the machine-like anthropomorphic forms to life. The original collages were destroyed but he later reproduced them in this series of pochoirs also including the explicative text which originally accompanied each work. Turin, Luciano Anselmino, 1972. hardcover
1931Best.-Nr. 54654Paris: Compagnie Parisienne de Distribution d'Électricité 1931. First edition. Ray Man. Folio two unbound folded sheets to make 6 pp. text with 10 photogravure plates 8 1/16 x 10 1/4 inches 20.48 x 26.03 cm tipped to a stiff art paper mount 10 7/8 x14 3/4 inches 27.62 x 37.46 each with a titled protective vellum wrapper. The text and prints are laid-in a blank vellum folder which is mildly creased and laid-in the four-point printed paper portfolio. This copy has the complimentary slip from the CPDE which is seldom included. Each plate bears the signature of Man Ray which was signed in the original negative. This is copy number 409 from a total edition of 500 copies. A fine near new copy. Aside from a slight bit of toning to the printed four-point paper folder this is a fine near new copy contained in a custom-made gilt titled leather-backed cloth over boards chemise with matching cloth slipcase. In 1931 the Paris electric company CPDE commissioned Man Ray to produce a series of images promoting the various uses of electricity. The resulting portfolio of ten Rayogrammes was issued in 500 copies which were distributed to the CPDE's best and prospective clients and not commercially offered for sale. The photogravure prints made from original Rayograms are titled: Electricité La Ville Salle de Bain La Maison Lingerie Salle a Manger Cuisine Le Souffle Electricité Le Monde. In 2014 the Metropolitan Museum of Art Curator in Charge Department of Photographs Jeff R. Rosenheim stated: "This remarkably seductive album of photogravures is an exquisite example of his legacy as America's greatest Surrealist photographer." "Man Ray's ÉLECTRICITÉ is not only one of the most ravishing and sought-after of company photobooks but it contains a cogent suite of photographs that the leading American Dadaist and commercial photographer himself never bettered." Parr and Badger The Photobook: A History. Volume II p.183. Compagnie Parisienne de Distribution d'Électricité unknown
1926Best.-Nr. 1696841926. MAN RAY. Revolving Doors. Comprised of 10 pochoir plates ca. 580 x 380 mm. Folio loose in original publisher's black portfolio with ties laid into a new folding box. Paris: Editions Surréalistes 1926. A fine copy of this legendary Surrealist publication. Between 1916 and 1917 the artist and photographer Man Ray created a series of collages he called "Revolving Doors." He included the series in his third solo exhibition at the Daniel Gallery in New York in 1919. The collages whose geometric shapes combine machine-like and anthropomorphic forms were framed and installed on a rotating pole that the viewer could spin. The original collages were destroyed but he later reproduced them in this series of pochoir prints published by Éditions Surréalistes in Paris. This publication represents an important contribution to avant-garde art and together with Jazz and the Prose du Transsibérien comprise the Holy Trinity of great pochoir books of the twentieth century. Complete sets in fine condition are extremely rare. One of 105 copies signed on the colophon by Man Ray. Reynolds 71. unknown
1926Best.-Nr. 1696841926. MAN RAY. Revolving Doors. Comprised of 10 pochoir plates ca. 580 x 380 mm. Folio loose in original publisher's black portfolio with ties laid into a new folding box. Paris: Editions Surréalistes 1926. A fine copy of this legendary Surrealist publication. Between 1916 and 1917 the artist and photographer Man Ray created a series of collages he called "Revolving Doors." He included the series in his third solo exhibition at the Daniel Gallery in New York in 1919. The collages whose geometric shapes combine machine-like and anthropomorphic forms were framed and installed on a rotating pole that the viewer could spin. The original collages were destroyed but he later reproduced them in this series of pochoir prints published by Éditions Surréalistes in Paris. This publication represents an important contribution to avant-garde art and together with Jazz and the Prose du Transsibérien comprise the Holy Trinity of great pochoir books of the twentieth century. Complete sets in fine condition are extremely rare. One of 105 copies signed on the colophon by Man Ray. Reynolds 71. unknown books
