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Modern Photography Man Ray To be continued... Featuring the …
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Modern Photography Man Ray To be continued... Featuring the …
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Estimate €3,800 - €4,500
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Description
Modern Photography
Man Ray
To be continued... Featuring the hand-signed offset lithograph ‘Spiderwoamen’ by Man Ray. Beverly Hills, Copley Galleries 1948. 22.5 x 13.6 (30.2 x 22.4 cm). Signed and numbered. Partly printed on pink and yellow paper.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 67.765.19. – Additionally signed by Man Ray on the endpaper; one of 125 copies of the special edition featuring the original heliogravure. - A famous autonomous artist’s object with a triangularly cropped yellow front cover, a blue back cover and colour-coded endpapers, it directly translates the Dada principle of typographical and material subversion into the very form of the book itself. In terms of content, it encapsulates Man Ray’s dual role as strategist and boundary-crosser – his declaration to Breton, advocating the spreading of propaganda into enemy territory rather than converting those already convinced, precisely articulates the subversive principle of infiltration that underpins his entire body of work. Created during his California period (1940–1951) and conceived for the only genuinely Surrealist exhibition venue in Los Angeles – the Copley Galleries – the portfolio is both an attempt to transplant the Parisian avant-garde into a culturally resistant context and an early barometer of Californian Surrealism. With the ‘Spiderwoman’ and its programmatic title, it anticipates the artist’s book as a sculptural medium of the 1960s – and thus represents the most direct link between historical Surrealism and the book works of Ed Ruscha or Dieter Roth.
Includes the hand-signed offset lithograph *Spiderwoman* by Man Ray. Beverly Hills, Copley Galleries, 1948. Signed and numbered. Printed in part on pink and yellow paper. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 67.765.19. – Additionally hand-signed by Man Ray on the flyleaf, one of 125 copies of the deluxe edition featuring the original offset lithograph. - A celebrated autonomous artist’s object: the triangularly trimmed yellow front cover, blue back cover, and colour-differentiated insert sheets transpose the Dada principle of typographic and material subversion directly into the form of the book itself. In terms of content, it distils Man Ray’s dual role as strategist and boundary-crosser – his declaration to Breton that he preferred to carry his propaganda into the enemy’s camp rather than convert the already converted precisely articulates the subversive principle of infiltration that underlies his entire body of work. Conceived during his California period (1940–1951) for the only serious Surrealist exhibition venue in Los Angeles – the Copley Galleries – the portfolio is both an attempt to transplant the Parisian avant-garde into a culturally resistant context and an early barometer of Californian Surrealism. With *The Spiderwoman* and its programmatic title, it anticipates the artist’s book as a sculptural medium of the 1960s – and thereby represents the most direct link between historical Surrealism and the book works of Ed Ruscha or Dieter Roth.
*This lot is subject to standard tax. A 24.95% buyer’s premium is payable on the hammer price, and 7% (Books and Art) or 19% VAT (Manuscripts, screen prints, offset prints, photographs) is payable on the final invoice amount within the European Union. This work is subject to the standard margin scheme. A 24.95% buyer’s premium is charged on the hammer price, and 7% (books and art) or 19% VAT (manuscripts, screen prints, offset prints and photographs) is charged on the final invoice amount within the European Union.
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