$20,000
Estimate: $15,000 - $20,000
Modern & Contemporary Works of Art
Auction: November 6, 2011 2:00:00 PM EDT
Signed and dated 1917 bottom right, ink on paper
19 x 14 5/8 in. (48.2 x 37cm)
Provenance: The artist.
By family descent.
Private Collection, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, gifted from the above circa 1959.
By family descent.
Private Collection, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Exhibited:
New York, Daniel Gallery, "Man Ray: An exhibition of selected drawings and paintings accomplished during the period 1913-19," November 17-December 1, 1919.
Paris, Galerie Rive Droite, "Man Ray," 1959.
Note:
Although erroneously dated 1917 by Man Ray, the artist's card file held at the Centre Pompidou archives confirms the date of execution as 1918. The present owner's mother, a close friend of Man Ray's niece, Naomi Savage, received this drawing as a gift from the artist after visiting him in his studio in Paris.