MAN RAY (1890-1976)

Pain peint Book-object. Catalog of the Man Ray exhibition, directed by Sergio Tosi, Galerie Alexandre Iolas, 1972 Reduction of Pain peint (blue bread stick designed in 1958) mounted on the cover of the exhibition catalog, designed as a leporello. Print unknown. 24 x 17 x 3 cm Pain peint Object book. Catalog of the exhibition Man Ray, Directed by Sergio Tosi, Galerie Alexandre Iolas, 1972 Reduction of the Painted bread (blue bread stick designed in 1958) mounted on the cover of the exhibition catalog, designed in leporello. Draw unknown. 9.45 x 6.7 x 1.19 inch. Provenance: Collection Edmonde et Lucien Treillard, Paris Bibliography: - R. Penrose, Man Ray, London, 1975, p.203, n°XX (Painted bread, ill.p.184) - A. Schwartz, Man Ray, The rigor of imagination, London, 1977 (Painted bread, p.369, n°322, ill. p. 184) - J.-H. Martin, R. Krauss and B. Hermann, Man Ray, catalog raisonné, Sculptures et objets, Objets de mon affection, Paris, Philippe Sers, 1983 (Pain peint p.154, n°127, ill. p. 107) Andrew Strauss and Timothy Baum of the Man Ray Expertise Committee have confirmed the authenticity of this work and that the edition of this work will be included in the Catalogue des Objets et Sculptures de Man Ray, currently in preparation. Andrew Strauss and Timothy Baum of the Man Ray Expertise Committee have confirmed the authenticity of this work and that the edition of this work will be included in the Catalogue of Objects & Sculpture of Man Ray, currently in preparation.