Klubbat för:

5500 SEK

Estimate

8 000-10 000 SEK

Description

MAN RAY. Man Ray Photographs 1920-1934 Paris. With a portrait by Picasso. Texts by André Breton, Paul Eluard, Rrose Sélavy (= Marcel Duchamp), and Tristan Tzara. 2nd edition. New York City - Hartford, Connecticut (James Thrall Soby - Random House, no year (1934).

Large 4to. (c. 310x240 mm.). (6), 104, (1 blank, 1 [colophon]) pp. Illustrated with photogravures after Man Ray's rayographs, portraits, nudes, abstractions, and solarized imagery. In English & French.
Publisher's plastic spiral binding and thick card covers illustrated with a colour photograph by Man Ray (worn, some dampstaining and crease to lower cover, small damage to upper corner, some rubbing, plastic sprial with crack in the middle, lacking a small piece at the lower spiral, all six text leaves in the beginning are partly dampstained, some soiling and minor spotting).

First edition, second issue (with the cancel title stating "second edition"/"deuxième édition").
Famous photographic work by artist Man Ray with photographic studies of nudes, portraits (Stein, Dali, Derain, Matisse, Picasso, Schönberg, Tzara et al.), and general subjects and rayographs. Text contributions by André Breton, Paul Eluard and Tristan Tzara.

Auktionsnummer:

6056

Date:

2019-12-11