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Lot n° 7

MAN RAY (1890-1976)

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Portrait of Nusch Eluard in profile. Original photograph, signed lower right and dated 1933. 17.5 x 12.6 cm. Mounted on cardboard, bearing on the reverse the stamp Man Ray Rue Campagne Première. On the back of the frame handwritten annotation of Lucien Scheler : Photograph of Nusch Eluard by Man Ray Man Ray and his mistress Ady were very close to Nusch and Paul Eluard. Man Ray realized numerous photographs of Nusch, published in the books of Paul Eluard Facile and Le Temps déborde. Superb and famous portrait of Nusch Eluard by Man Ray. Provenance : Collection Lucien Scheler