Blue Bread

Details

MAN RAY (1890-1976)
Blue Bread
signed, dedicated, inscribed and dated 'for Roz and for Mel Blue bread is the favorite food of Blue Beard I ate all of it - thanks Man Ray Oct 13-65' (on the inside of the lid)
black felt-tip pen on painted papier mache box
4 1⁄8 x 18 3⁄8 x 5 5⁄8 in. (10.4 x 46.6 x 14.3 cm.)
Executed in New York on 13 October 1965 at a dinner party in the Jacobs home

Provenance

Gift from the artist to the late owners at a dinner party, October 1965.

Exhibited

Miami, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sweet Dreams and Nightmares: Dada and Surrealism from the Rosalind and Melvin Jacobs Collection, March-May 2000.

Further Details

Andrew Strauss and Timothy Baum of the Man Ray Expertise Committee have confirmed the authenticity of this work and that it will be included in the catalogue raisonné of the Objects and Sculptures of Man Ray, currently in preparation.

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Lot Essay

Blue Bread was an improvised gift Man Ray created for Roz and Mel at a dinner they hosted for him on 13 October 1965. The artist drew an eye and inscribed the inside of a baguette-shaped papier mache box the Jacobses had spray painted blue and were using as the centerpiece of their dining table.

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