Man Ray
Untitled
1925
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Man Ray
Untitled
1925
Physical Qualities
Gelatin silver print, Image/Sheet: 203 x 145 mm. (8 x 5 11/16 in.)
Mount: 295 x 223 mm. (11 5/8 x 8 3/4 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
1988.427
Baule portrait mask of a woman from the Ivory Coast (made for the tourist trade, not ceremonial use). The same mask appears in "Noire et Blanche (Black and White)," 1926 (BMA 1988.422).
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase/gift, 1988; George Dalsheimer, Baltimore; Prakapas Gallery, New York, October 24, 1981.
Man Ray, African Art and the Modernist Lens
Emmanuelle de l'Ecotais and Alain Sayag eds., Man Ray Photography and Its Double, Madera, CA: Ginko Press, 1998, ill., p. 174.
Wendy A. Grossman, "Man Ray, African Art, and the Modernist Lens," Washington, DC: International Arts & Artists, 2009, fig. 96 ill.
Taylor, Michael R. Man Ray: The Paris Years. Richmond, VA: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2021, p. 139
Wendy A. Grossman and Steven Manford, "Unmasking Man Ray's 'Noire et blanche.'" "American Art." Vol. 20, No. 2 (Summer 2006), pp. 134-147, repr. fig. 4.
Inscribed: on mount, lower right in graphite: "Man Ray / Paris";on mount, upper left verso in graphite: "8 [circled]"; on mount, lower left verso in graphite: "MR5"
Markings: Verso: stamped at center, in black ink: "MAN RAY / 31 bis, RUE / CAMPAGNE / PREMIÈRE / PARIS XIVe"; stamped at lower center, in black ink: "Reproduction interdite / sans autorisation écrite / de l'ADAGP / 9 et 11, rue Barryer / PARIS-8e / 924-03-87"
