RAY MAN: (1890-1976) American visual artist, a significant contributor to the Dada and Surrealist movements and a renowned pioneering fashion and portrait photographer. Vintage signed 9 x 13 lithograph by Man Ray, the abstract design printed in bistre on handmade Pescia paper and issued as one of ten lithographs by the artist in a limited edition of 49 to accompany Arturo Schwarz's volume of poems Il Reale Assoluto, which also included two lithographs by Marcel Duchamp and was published by Galleria Schwarz, Milan, 1964. Signed by Man Ray in pencil with his name alone to the base of the image. One very slight, minor crease to the upper left corner, otherwise about EX

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