Man Ray
Black and White
1925
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Man Ray
Black and White
1925
Physical Qualities
Gelatin silver print, Sheet: 208 x 271 mm. (8 3/16 x 10 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Purchase with exchange funds from the Edward Joseph Gallagher III Memorial Collection; and partial gift of George H. Dalsheimer, Baltimore
Object Number
1988.422
Man Ray's model and companion Kiki posed with Baule portrait mask of a woman from the Ivory Coast (made for the tourist trade, not ceremonial use).
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase/gift, 1988; George H. Dalsheimer, Baltimore; Prakapas Gallery, NY, March 11, 1980.
Whitney Museum of American Art at Equitable Center, "Master American Photographs," 29 January - 8 April 1987.
Jan Howard, BMA, "The Collector's Eye: Photographs from the Museum's Dalsheimer Collection," 17 September - 19 November, 1989.
Jan Howard, BMA, "Surrealist Art from the BMA's Collection," 31 March - 20 June 1999.
Rena Hoisington, BMA, "Looking through the Lens: Photography 1900-1960," 16 March - 8 June 2008.
International Arts and Artists, "Man Ray: African Art and the Modernist Lens" circulated to the Phillips Collection, Oct. 10 - January 10, 2010, p. 179 (not illus).
Virgina Museum of Fine Arts, "Man Ray: The Paris Years" October 30, 2021 - February 21, 2022.
Jan Howard, BMA, "The Collector's Eye: Photographs from the Museum's Dalsheimer Collection," 17 September - 19 November, 1989.
Jan Howard, BMA, "Surrealist Art from the BMA's Collection," 31 March - 20 June 1999.
Rena Hoisington, BMA, "Looking through the Lens: Photography 1900-1960," 16 March - 8 June 2008.
International Arts and Artists, "Man Ray: African Art and the Modernist Lens" circulated to the Phillips Collection, Oct. 10 - January 10, 2010, p. 179 (not illus).
Virgina Museum of Fine Arts, "Man Ray: The Paris Years" October 30, 2021 - February 21, 2022.
Grossman, Wendy A. and Steven Manford, "Unmasking Man Ray's 'Noire et blanche.'" "American Art." Vol. 20, No. 2 (Summer 2006), pp. 134-147, BMA mentioned on p. 140.
Haus, Andreas, ed., "Man Ray: Photographien Paris 1920-1934," Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 1980), ill. 44
Rosalind Krauss and Jane Livingston, "L'Amour for Photography and Surrealism," NY: Abbeville Press, with the Corcoran Gallery, 1985, p. 145, ill. p. 138.
"Man Ray Photographs," NY: Thames and Hudson, 1982, p. 88, illus. p. 106.
Taylor, Michael R. Man Ray: The Paris Years. Richmond, VA: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2021, p. 138-9.
Inscribed: lower right in black ink: "MAN RAY 26"; upper left verso in graphite: "Kiki with African mask"; lower right verso in graphite: artist monogram; lower left verso in graphite: "22 [circled]"
Markings: Verso: at center, stamped in black ink: "MAN RAY / 31 bis, RUE / CAMPAGNE / PREMIÈ [indecipherable] / PARIS [indecipherable]"; at lower right, stamped in black ink: "Reproduction interdite / dans autorisation écrite / de l'ADAGP / 9 et 11, rue Berryer / PARIS-8e / 924-03-87"
