LOT 52 Man Ray (1890 Philadelphia - 1976 Paris) (F) - Hermaphrodite
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Man Ray (1890 Philadelphia - 1976 Paris) (F) Hermaphrodite, 1973, bronze, polished, with wooden plinth, height (with plinth) 35.5 cm, signed, inscribed 'artcurial', numbered 47/350, some minor damage, with certificate and copy of the purchase receiptProvenance: Edition & Galerie Volker Huber; private collection, Hanover"I have always envied those for whom a work is a mystery." (Man Ray)The American photographer, film director, painter and sculptor Emanuel Rudnitzky, alias Man Ray, was among the most important representatives of the Dadaist and Surrealist movements. He enjoyed art even as a child and decided early in life to make it his career. He founded the DADA group in New York together with Marcel Duchamp. He moved to Paris at the age of 31, where he made aquaintance with influential artists like Salvador Dalí , Max Ernst, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Piet Mondrian and Yves Tanguy. The majority of them would later enter Man Ray's photographic oeuvre in the form of portraits.The Dadaists separated from the Surrealists in 1922, and Man Ray sided with the Surrealists. In the late 1930s, he fled from the Nazis to New York, only returning to Paris in 1951. In 1958 he took part in the great Dadaist exhibitions in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and the Kunstverein Düsseldorf. An extensive retrospective of his work was exhibited at the County Museum of Art in Los Angeles in 1966. The hermaphrodite was a two-gendered being from Greek mythology. Man Ray had already explored the subject in his photographic works in the 1930s, and 40 years later he returned to the motif in the form of an archaic statuette.
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