Artist
Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky)(American, 1890–1976)American, 1890–1976
CultureAmerican
Titles
- Rayograph
Date1927
MediumGelatin silver print, photogram
DimensionsImage: 11 15/16 × 9 15/16 in. (30.3 × 25.2 cm)
Sheet: 11 15/16 × 9 15/16 in. (30.3 × 25.2 cm)
Mount: 19 15/16 × 16 in. (50.6 × 40.6 cm)
Sheet: 11 15/16 × 9 15/16 in. (30.3 × 25.2 cm)
Mount: 19 15/16 × 16 in. (50.6 × 40.6 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund, The Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2002.1576
Not on view
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Department
PhotographySpecial Collections
Object Type
Provenanceex-collection Altmann, Paris; Galerie Rudolf Kicken, Cologne; Mr. Manfred Heiting; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2002, 2002.1576.
Exhibition History"Alias Man Ray," The Jewish Museum, New York, November 15, 2009–March 14,2010.
"Utopia/ Dystopia: Construction and Destruction in Photography and Collage," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 11–June 10, 2012.
"Man Ray's photography in the surrealist's Paris," Max Ernst Museum Brühl des LVR, Germany, September 15-December 8, 2013.
“Shadows on the Wall: Cameraless Photography from 1851 to Today,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, August 31–November 30, 2014.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
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Recto, lower right, in pencil: "Man Ray 1927"
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Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky)
1919–1920, printed 1970
Gelatin silver print
2002.2883
Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky)
1920, printed 1970
Gelatin silver print
2002.2882