id: 325460 accession number: 2019.26 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2019.26 updated: 2024-03-26 02:02:06.033000 Georges Braque, 1933. Man Ray (American, 1890–1976). Gelatin silver print, solarized; image: 28.3 x 21.5 cm (11 1/8 x 8 7/16 in.); paper: 28.3 x 21.5 cm (11 1/8 x 8 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Diann G. Mann and Thomas A. Mann 2019.26 title: Georges Braque title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1933 creation date earliest: 1933 creation date latest: 1933 current location: creditline: Gift of Diann G. Mann and Thomas A. Mann copyright: --- culture: America, 20th century technique: gelatin silver print, solarized 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: 28.3 x 21.5 cm (11 1/8 x 8 7/16 in.); Paper: 28.3 x 21.5 cm (11 1/8 x 8 7/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Written in pencil on verso: “Portrait de Braque/Soigné speciale” translation: remark: inscription: Written in pencil on verso: “Tel/France 150/[illegible word]” translation: remark: inscription: Stamped in red ink on verso: “MAN RAY/31bis, RUE/CAMPAGNE/PREMIRE/PARIS XIV” translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Galerie rue du Dragon, Paris, France date: footnotes: citations: Alan Koppel date: late 1970s footnotes: citations: Sotheby's, New York, NY date: November 12, 1985 footnotes: citations: Private Collection date: footnotes: citations: Sotheby's, New York, NY date: October 16, 1990 footnotes: citations: Thomas A. and Diann G. Mann, Palm Beach Gardens, FL date: November 12, 1985 footnotes: citations: the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: March 4, 2019 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Man Ray. Man Ray: Photographs. New York, N.Y.: Thames and Hudson, 1982. page number: pl. 326, p. 244 (variant) url: Braque, Georges, Brigitte Léal, Gary Tinterow, and Alison de Lima Greene. Georges Braque, 1882-1963: Paris, Grand Palais, Galeries nationales, 16 septembre 2013-6 janvier 2014, Houston, the Museum of Fine Arts, 16 février-11 mai 2014. 2013. page number: cat. 1, p. 13, p. 320 (variant) url: Christie, Manson & Woods International Inc. An American Journey: The Diann G. and Thomas A. Mann Collection of Photographic Masterworks. 2018. page number: url: --- IMAGES