At an offsite event to mark the opening of the new Gagosian exhibit Man Ray: The Mysteries of Château du Dé, the band SQÜRL played a live score to four of the surrealist’s 1920s films. It was an ...
A Christie’s sale featuring dozens of artworks by Man Ray that the artist’s trust attempted to halt went ahead yesterday, March 2, in Paris, with all 188 lots sold—known in auction parlance as a ...
Newsprint pages flitting in the wind, a scatter of pins, a cracked mirror, an exposed garter belt on a blurred body, a blinking eye. Kitten heels dancing the Charleston, painted brows and a string of ...
Man Ray was the ultimate networker. From the time he was twenty-three years old, when he asked Alfred Stieglitz to sit for a painted portrait, he had an uncanny knack for befriending important people.
Man Ray’s “Ava Gardner in Costume for Albert Lewin’s ‘Pandora and ther Flying Dutchman’ ” (1950). Photo courtesy of Gagosian Gallery The artist Man Ray led a productive and celebrated life in Paris, ...
Le Violon d’Ingres, an iconic black-and-white photograph created in 1924 by American surrealist artist Man Ray, will be offered at Christie’s in May with an estimate of between US$5 million and US$7 ...
THE DAILY PIC (#1677): This self-portrait print by Man Ray, from 1970, is in the new show called “The Human Image: From Velazquez to Viola,” at Richard L. Feigen & Co in New York. The piece looks ...
“Man Ray didn’t consider photography to be a form of art,” said Marion Maneker in Puck. That notion may surprise some visitors to the Met’s survey of one of the artist’s most fertile periods, because ...
In an intimate show of nine paintings, Vito Schnabel brings to life a dialogue between the artists Man Ray and Francis Picabia—arguably under-appreciated modern-era masters. For Schnabel—son of the ...
The 86-year-old Man Ray had outlived most of his closest contemporaries when he died in Paris in 1976. Tristan Tzara, the impresario of Dada, conked off on Christmas Day 1963. André Breton, the petty ...
PARIS — Man Ray’s Surrealist experiments with photography not only revolutionized the medium, but also transformed the way that fashion was represented in magazines during the Twenties and Thirties, a ...