[The Kiss], circa 1930
Gelatin-silver print, original contact cropped by folds by the artist
Back entry: "Miller Deldorme" (?) 10,9 x 8,2 cm
[The Kiss], circa 1930
Gelatin-silver print, original contact cropped by folds by the artist
Back entry: "Miller Deldorme" (?) 4.3 x 3.23 inch.
Note:
The motif of the mouth or kiss is quite frequent in Man Ray's work: it is found in other photographs, but also in drawings, paintings, prints and objects (Les Amoureux, Images à deux faces). All these works were inspired by the lips of Lee Miller, the artist's muse and object of desire, who is photographed here in profile with an unidentified woman.
Man Ray's work of reframing, so essential to obtaining the final work, was here carried out by folding.
The theme of the mouth or the kiss is quite frequent in Man Ray's work: it is found in other photographs, but also in drawings, paintings, prints and objects (Les Amoureux, Images à deux faces). All these works were inspired by the lips of Lee Miller, the artist's muse and object of desire, who is photographed here in profile with an unidentified woman.
Man Ray's reframing technique, so essential to obtaining the final work, was achieved here by folding.
Provenance:
Collection Edmonde et Lucien Treillard, Paris
Bibliography:
- VU, n°355, 2 January 1935, p.3
- Ronny Van de Velde, Man Ray 1890-1976, Anvers, Albin Michel, 1994, ill. p.64
- Emmanuelle de l'Ecotais, Alain Sayag, Man Ray, la photographie à l'envers, Centre Georges Pompidou, 1998, ill. p. 98 (this copy)
- E. de l'Ecotais, K. Ware, Man Ray, Taschen, 2001, p.65
- Man Ray, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 2004, ill. p.40 (cropped version)
- Man Ray, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2004, ill. p.60 (this copy)
- Emmanuelle de l'Ecotais and Alain Sayag, Man Ray, Delpire, Paris, 2015, ill. p.151
- Emmanuelle de l'Ecotais, Katherine Ware, Man Ray, Taschen, 2017, ill. p.65 and back cover, cropped version.
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