Jean Cocteau, Paris, c. 1922

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Man Ray (1890-1976)
Man Ray
Jean Cocteau, Paris, c. 1922
tirage argentique
signé à l'encre 'Man Ray Paris 23' (image); cachet du photographe 'Man Ray 31bis, rue Campagne Première, Paris' et diverses annotations au crayon et à l'encre (verso)
image/feuille : 28.4 x 22.7 cm.

gelatin silver print
signed in ink 'Man Ray Paris 23' (image); stamped photographer's credit 'Man Ray 31bis, rue Campagne Première Paris' and variously annotated in pencil and in ink (verso)
image/sheet : 11 1/8 x 8 7/8 in.

Provenance

Raoul Leven, Paris.
Collection Marion Meyer, Paris (acquis directement auprès de celui-ci).

Literature

Les heures chaudes de Montparnasse, cat.ex., Le Petit Palais, Genève, 1995, p. 130 (variante).
Man Ray Portraits : Paris-Hollywood-Paris, cat. ex., Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2010, p. 107 (variante).

Exhibited

Tokyo, The Bunkamura Museum of Art; Takamatsu, Takamatsu City Museum of Art; Ibaraki, Tsukuba Museum of Art; Okayama, The Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art; Akita, Akita Senshu Museum of Art et Itami, City Museum of Art, Man Ray et ses amis, juillet 1991-février 1992, ill. 34, p. 37.
Fukui, Fine Arts Museum; Okazaki, Mindscape Museum; Saitama, The Museum of Modern Art; Yamanashi, Prefectural Museum of Modern Art et Tokushima, Modern Art Museum, Man Ray, I am an Enigma, juin 2004-mars 2005, ill. 131, p. 101.
Malaga, Fundacion Malaga / Fundacion Picasso Casa Natal, Man Ray : yo soy un enigma, mai-juillet 2006, p. 117.
Lugano, Museo d'Arte della Città di Lugano, Man Ray, mars-juillet 2011, p. 106.
Passariano, Villa Manin / Fondazione Marconi, Man Ray, septembre-novembre 2014, p. 118.
Vienne, Kunstforum, Man Ray, février-juin 2018, p. 115.
Madrid, Fundación Canal, Man Ray, Objetos de ensueño, janvier-avril 2019, p. 28.
Pékin, M Woods et Qingdao, TAG Museum, Man Ray, Dreams, Images and love, septembre 2021-mars 2022.
Tokyo, Bunkamura Museum; Nagano, The Nagano Art Museum; Niigita, Niigita City Art Museum et Hayama Kanagawa, The Museum of Modern Art, Man Ray and the Women, juillet 2021-janvier 2023, ill. 82, p. 84.

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Lot Essay

The stamp on the verso of this photograph has been identified as M2 in Steven Manford’s book, Behind the photo: the stamps of Man Ray (2009). According to Manford, this early lifetime stamp “may be the first Paris stamp in use. It certainly was in use by the mid-twenties” (p. 19).

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