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Lot 167:
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Keywords: Surrealism, Modernism, Dada movement, Avant-garde, Bauhaus influence, Interwar period, silver gelatin prints, photographic paper, 1930s, early 20th century, experimental photography, mannequin installation
Rare suite of eight original silver gelatin prints by Man Ray, created for the 1938 International Surrealist Exhibition at the Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Paris. The mannequin installation featured in these photographs was a collaborative surrealist effort involving key figures such as Salvador Dali, Oscar Dominguez, Marcel Duchamp, Andre Masson, Yves Tanguy, and others. Each print (5 x 7 inch approx) is mounted together in a single frame and bears the Man Ray Gallery stamp on the reverse. Further marks or inscriptions may be present but have not been verified due to framing.
Art: 20 1/2 x 28 1/4 in. (52.1 x 71.8 cm.), Frame: 20 1/4 x 30 1/4 in. (51.4 x 76.8 cm.) approx
ID 11
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