id: 151947 accession number: 1984.23 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1984.23 updated: 2025-04-16 18:16:39.105000 Bubble Emerging from Clay Pipe and Frosted Leaf, 1937. Man Ray (American, 1890–1976). Gelatin silver print, photogram; image: 40 x 29.7 cm (15 3/4 x 11 11/16 in.); matted: 55.9 x 45.7 cm (22 x 18 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1984.23. © 2013 Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris title: Bubble Emerging from Clay Pipe and Frosted Leaf title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1937 creation date earliest: 1937 creation date latest: 1937 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: © 2013 Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris --- culture: America technique: gelatin silver print, photogram department: Photography collection: PH - American 1900-1950 type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Man Ray (American, 1890–1976) - artist Man Ray (Emanuel Rudnitsky) American, 1890-1976 Man Ray (born Emanuel Rudnitsky in Philadelphia) was an avant-garde painter and photographer active in the dada and surrealist movements who became known for his experiments with the photogram and solarization. He grew up in New York and in his 20s worked in the city as a commercial artist, attending night classes at the National Academy of Design and lectures at the avant-garde Ferrer Social Center. Visiting the 1913 Armory show and "291," Alfred Stieglitz's gallery, he became increasingly familiar with the latest developments in modern art. In 1915 Man Ray had his first one-person show of paintings and drawings at New York's Daniel Gallery and met French artist Marcel Duchamp, with whom he became lifelong friends. He also began taking photographs that year as a way to document his paintings. Along with Duchamp and Francis Picabia, another French artist, Man Ray was a member of the New York dada group during World War I and in the years immediately following the war. In 1921 he moved to Paris, soon establishing himself as a professional portrait and fashion photographer. He also became interested in experimental photography, producing photograms (cameraless photographs that he called rayographs) and pioneering the use of solarization, a technique accidentally discovered by his darkroom assistant, Lee Miller, in 1929. Throughout the 1920s-30s Man Ray worked with surrealist painters and poets on a number of collaborative projects, providing photographs for their books and articles. He also made avant-garde films, including Le Retour à la raison (1923), Emak Bakia (1926), L'Etoile de mer (1928), and Les Mysteres du Chateau du Des (1929). Widely recognized for its innovation, his work was shown at the first invitational exhibition of contemporary modernist photography held in Paris at the Salon de l'Escalier at the Théatre des Champs-Elysées (1928) and at the Film und Foto exhibition in Stuttgart (1929). In 1940 Man Ray moved to Hollywood, where he worked as a freelance photographer and painter until returning to Paris in 1951. He experimented with color photography in the late 1950s and early 1960s, but painting became his primary interest. One of his paintings is also in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Man Ray's photographs have been exhibited in more than 100 one-artist exhibitions, including a retrospective at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1966), a showing at the Venice Biennale (1976), and major exhibitions at the Kunstverein, Frankfurt (1979, and tour), and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (1981). Awarded the Gold Medal for photography at the Venice Biennale in 1961, Man Ray's images, which emphasize chance and the irrational and which deliberately mock traditional ideas of art, continue to fascinate and inspire generations of photographers. M.M. --- measurements: Image: 40 x 29.7 cm (15 3/4 x 11 11/16 in.); Matted: 55.9 x 45.7 cm (22 x 18 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Scratched into photograph on recto: "Man Ray [signed] 37"; written in pencil on verso: "A"; "Man Ray [signed] 1937" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review for 1984 opening date: 1985-04-03T05:00:00 Year in Review for 1984. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 3-May 5, 1985). title: Images of the Mind opening date: 1987-07-07T04:00:00 Images of the Mind. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 7-August 30, 1987). title: Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 1996-11-24T05:00:00 Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 24, 1996-February 2, 1997). title: Icons of American Photography: A Century of Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2007-06-24T00:00:00 Icons of American Photography: A Century of Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 24-September 16, 2007). title: The Colour of My Dreams: The Surrealist Revolution in Art opening date: 2011-05-28T00:00:00 The Colour of My Dreams: The Surrealist Revolution in Art. Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (organizer) (May 28-October 2, 2011). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'CMA, April 3 - May 5, 1985: "Year in Review 1984," CMA Bulletin, 72 (April 1985), p. 202, no. 63, repr. p. 195.', 'opening_date': '1985-04-03T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, July 7 - August 23, 1987: "Images of the Mind," catalogue illustrated p. 28.', 'opening_date': '1987-07-07T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Washington, D.C. National Museum of American Art, December 2, 1988 - February 20, 1989: "Perpetual Motif: The Art of Man Ray."', 'opening_date': '1988-12-02T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Los Angeles, CA, Museum of Contemporary Art, March 19 - May 28, 1989: "Perpetual Motif: The Art of Man Ray."', 'opening_date': '1989-03-19T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Houston, TX, The Menil Collection, June 30 - September 17, 1989: "Perpetual Motif: The Art of Man Ray."', 'opening_date': '1989-06-30T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Philadelphia, PA, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, October 14, 1989 - January 7, 1990: "Perpetual Motif: The Art of Man Ray."', 'opening_date': '1989-10-14T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, November 20,1996 - February 2, 1997: "Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art."', 'opening_date': '1997-02-02T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'The Cleveland Museum of Art (6/24/07 - 9/16/07); "Icons of American Photography: A Century of Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art", no exhibition catalogue.', 'opening_date': '2007-06-24T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Vancouver Art Gallery (5/28/2011 - 10/2/2011): "The Colour of My Dreams: The Surrealist Revolution in Art"', 'opening_date': '2011-05-28T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Turner, Evan H. “The Year in Review for 1984.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 72, no. 2 (April 1985): 163–207. page number: Mentioned: p. 202, no. 63; Reproduced: p. 195 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159897 Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996. page number: Reproduced: P. 229 url: --- IMAGES