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| 1. |  | Man Ray 1922-1926 (taken) 1978 (print) Rayograph Gelatin silver print 29 x 21,7 cm Bassenge Photography Auctions Auction 104, 3 December 2014, 19th - 21st Century Photography, Lot: 4212 Lit.: Man Ray. Photographs. London 1982, ill. p. 141. |
| 2. |  | Man Ray 1922 (ca) Untitled (rayograph with a screen) Silver print after the original rayograph 8 3/4 x 6 3/4 in (22.2 x 17.1 cm) Swann Galleries - New York Courtesy of Swann Galleries (Auction, Oct 22, 2009, Photographs & Photographic Literature, Sale 2191 Lot 99) With Man Ray's "31 bis. Rue Campagne" hand stamp and the number "3," in colored pencil, in an unknown hand, on verso. This rayograph was included in Man Ray's 1922 portfolio Champs Delicieux (introduction by Tristan Tzara) which featured 12 photographs, and is considered his first definitive statement on the medium. In order to produce an edition of 40 copies, Man Ray's original rayograph (which is typically a unique object), was re-photographed to create a negative. Given the notations on print verso, the photograph offered here is believed to be a proof print for this portfolio, and bears an early Paris hand stamp. Though the photogram is a precursor to modern photographic practices, and was explored by artist and scientist William Henry Fox Talbot, for Man Ray the discovery of the process (which he subsequently referred to as a "rayograph") was an accident. Developing portraits in a hotel room, he placed some objects on photographic paper and turned on the light, creating contrasting silhouettes of black and white. Like other photographers before him, the direct relationship between the object and resulting image fascinated the artist. He primarily used utilitarian or familiar household objects, including his hands, pubic hair, light bulbs, glasses, keys, vises, combs and doilies. The layering, shifting, and occasional transparency facilitated by these recognizable forms gave his compositions a dimensionality and animation that Jean Cocteau called "phantasmagorical." In this modernist image, the pattern of the mesh screen is reminiscent of a printer's dot matrix, which contrasts visually with the clean parallel lines of the industrial objects depicted. The grid-like background and overall effect alludes to Man Ray's experience as a technical illustrator. Man Ray created rayographs for short period of time. The companion portfolio images, which are bold black-and-white compositions that reflect his mastery of light and form, are perhaps more direct comparisons with nineteenth-century studies. However, Man Ray's willingness to experiment and push the boundaries of this elegant technique further, make this a moving homage to Talbot's abstracted study of lace, which is offered as Lot 1 in this sale. The hand stamp is identified as "M2" in historian Steven Manford's book, "Behind the Photo, The Stamps of Man Ray." |
| 3. |  | Man Ray n.d. Rayograph with hand and egg Gelatin silver print, photogram Sotheby's - New York This photograph is a part of the Buhl Collection of photographs to be sold at Sothebys New York (Winter, 2012), This collection was included in the exhibition "Speaking With Hands: Photographs from the Buhl Collection" at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York in 2004. Henry Buhl & Thomas Krens Speaking with Hands: Photographs from the Buhl Collection (Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 2004) ISBN-10: 0892073012, ISBN-13: 978-0892073016 |
| 4. |  | Man Ray 1959 Untitled [Rayogram] Silver print 23,9 x 18 cm (9 3/4 x 7 ins) Sotheby's - Paris Photographies , 29 May 2013, Auction: PF1310, Lot: 100 |
| 5. |  | Man Ray 1930 (ca) Photogramme Heliogravure 24.5 x 19 cm Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Département des Estampes et de la Photographie Estampes et Photographie. Ad 1291 4o. Don de l'Etat, 1939. (c) Man Ray Trust / Adagp, Paris 2005. |
| 6. |  | Man Ray 1923 (taken) 1978 (print) Rayogram Gelatin silver print, on Agfa paper 30 x 24.3 cm Bassenge Photography Auctions Courtesy of Bassenge, Berlin (Photography, Dec 2, 2009, Sale: 94, Lot: 4271) Man Ray stamp, Griffelkunst edition stamp and rayograph stamp as well as signed and dated by the estate executor in ballpoint pen on the verso, mounted along upper edge to board. Lit.: Man Ray. Photographs. London 1982, ill. P. 141. |
| 7. |  | Man Ray 1922 Untitled Rayograph [Portfolio "Les Champs Délicieux"] Gelatin silver print 8 13/16 x 6 7/8 ins J. Paul Getty Museum 84.XM.840.8, © Man Ray Trust ARS-ADAGP |
| 8. |  | Man Ray 1924 Gun with Alphabet Stencils Gelatin silver print 11 5/8 x 9 1/4 in J. Paul Getty Museum The J. Paul Getty Trust (84.XM.1000.171), © Man Ray Trust ARS-ADAGP |
| 9. |  | Man Ray 1922 Rayograph Gelatin silver print Source requested |
| 10. |  | Man Ray 1926 Untitled Gelatin silver print 11¢ x 8+ins (29.2 x 21 cm) Christie's - London Courtesy of Christies, London (Sale: 7434 - Photographs, Lot: 54 - Nov 13, 2007) Signed in pencil on recto; credit and reproduction limitation stamps, printing notations on verso. de l'Ecotais, Man Ray: Rayographies, Léo Scheer, 2002, p.141, no.177, for the Rayograph. This print was made for Man Ray's 1963 portfolio 12 Rayographs, 1921-1928. |
| 11. |  | Man Ray 1927 Untitled Rayograph (Scissors and Cut Paper) Gelatin silver print 11 7/8 x 9 15/16 ins J. Paul Getty Museum 84.XM.1000.169, © Man Ray Trust ARS-ADAGP |
| 12. |  | Man Ray 1922 Untitled Rayograph [Portfolio "Les Champs Délicieux"] Gelatin silver print 8 9/16 x 6 3/4 ins J. Paul Getty Museum 84.XM.840.2, © Man Ray Trust ARS-ADAGP |
| 13. |  | Man Ray 1922 Untitled Rayograph [Portfolio "Les Champs Délicieux"] Gelatin silver print 8 9/16 x 6 11/16 ins J. Paul Getty Museum 84.XM.840.9, © Man Ray Trust ARS-ADAGP |
| 14. |  | Man Ray 1922 (taken) 1978-1980 (print) Rayograph Gelatin silver print 29,5 x 22,1 cm Bassenge Photography Auctions 19th - 21st Century Photography, 3 June 2015, Lot: 4271 Lit.: Man Ray. Photographs. London 1982, ill. p. 140. |
| 15. |  | Man Ray 1923 Rayograph #182 Gelatin silver print 21.5 x 17 cm Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas Id number: 1975.0018.01 |
| 16. |  | Man Ray 1972 (before) Untitled (Rayograph) Gelatin silver print Lempertz - Cologne Auction 1041, November 28, 2014, Lot: 75 Flush-mounted to balsawood, thereon signed and editioned in pencil below the image on the mount. Editioned H.C. VI/X from and edition of 50 (+ 10 A.P.). Edition Galerie des 4 Mouvements, Paris. |
| 17. |  | Man Ray 1930 Rayograph (Tanya Ramm in profile) Gelatin silver print 29.2 x 22.8 cm (11 1/2 x 9 ins) (sheet) Art Gallery of Ontario - AGO Malcolmson Collection, © Man Ray Trust / SODRAC (2014) |
| 18. |  | Man Ray 1927 Untitled Rayograph (Light Patterns) Gelatin silver print 9 15/16 x 11 7/8 ins J. Paul Getty Museum 84.XM.1000.153, © Man Ray Trust ARS-ADAGP |
| 19. |  | Man Ray 1927 Rayogramme (pupitres) Tirage argentique 25 x 30 cm Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Département des Estampes et de la Photographie Estampes et Photographie. Ep 11 (2) bte Fol. (no69). (c) Man Ray Trust / Adagp, Paris 2005. |
| 20. |  | Man Ray 1972 40 Rayographies: Galerie Des 4 Mouvements Catalogue cover 27.7 x 21.6 cm Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas Id number: 1975.0018.02 |