"Personnage"

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(c. 1975)

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"Personnage" circa 1975, color lithograph on Japon nacre ; 591x470mm; 23 1/4" x 18 1/2",  full margins.  Initialed and numbered in pencil, lower margin.  A very good impression with strong colors, aside from a soft 1" handling crease at the lower left corner, well outside the image.

Man Ray (ne Emmaneul Radnitzky, 1890-1976) was born in Philadelphia and raised in New York City where he attended the Academy of Fine Arts.  Later, he attended the Ferrer School, where he first met Marcel Duchamp and Francis Picabia. While in school, Man Ray's style evolved from Cubism to Dadaism and finally to Surrealism.  In 1921, Man Ray left New York for Paris, where he remained the rest of his life, except for the World War II years. He participated in the first international Dada show held in Paris, was a member of the Surrealist movement from 1924, and exhibited in the first Surrealist show in Paris in 1925.  Man Ray's forms of artistic expression were manifold, including; graphic artist, painter, sculptor, photographer, as well as filmmaker

"Personnage" is in a 38 5/8" x 33 3/8" Larson-Juhl 'Craig Ponzio' bisque and brown crackled frame with a matching wood fillet.  The 8-ply khaki colored outer and 4-ply khaki colored inner rag mats are acid and lignin free and protected with Acrylite-AR OP3 (UV) by CYRO .......... $4800.00