Les Invendables: Quarante oeuvres invendables de Man Ray, with Gelatin Silver Print

MAN RAY (b. Emmanuel Radnitzky; 1890-1976)

Edité par Galerie Alphonse Chave, Vence, France, 1969

Book: (10 13/16 x 8 3/4 inches). Sheet of Man Ray print: (9 1/4 x 6 13/16 inches). Image of Man Ray print: (5 3/4 x 4 1/16 inches). First edition. [24], 8 tipped-in color plates, 5 full-page engravings printed in black. Unopened, in three gatherings laid within covers with French flaps, which are wrapped in original Japanese vellum. This copy numbered 9 of 50 copies on fine paper. Signed in pencil on colophon. With additional gelatin silver print signed "9/50 Man Ray" in ink mounted on sandpaper. Back of sandpaper mount has a red stamp "marque déposée" A signed and numbered "décollage original" by modernist master Man Ray, on fine paper and issued in an edition of 50 copies, together with a signed and numbered gelatin silver print. Man Ray's preface to Les Invendables, translated from the French: "Les Invendables [The Unsellables]. Why? Because it is the name that is for sale. Without the signature the painting is worthless. You have to take both. There are those who turn the painting over to see if it is good fine linen. The painter holds his brush like the barber his razor, the musician his bow, the soldier his machine gun, this is how they hold their sex to piss or make love. The truth? There is nothing more subversive than the truth." - Man Ray Catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition Les Invendables at the Galerie Alphonse Chave in Vence, France, in 1969. The catalogue was published in 500 copies, 50 of which, like the copy here on offer, are on fine paper and constitute a "Décollage original" by Man Ray, who has signed and numbered the colophon in pencil. The gelatin print presents an ambiguous image, either skin of a body part close-up, or something like the moon's surface. Illustrations include: Metropolis, 1913; Déjeuner sur l'herbe, 1914; Antipolis (les jumelles), 1939; Incubator, 1943; Le Pont dix, 1953; Observatoire, 1914; Nature morte, 1914; Riegfield, 1913; Oiseau, 1954; and Centaure, 1943, above which is written "Rien ne remplace la vue de l'original." [Nothing replaces seeing the original.] Janus 1973: pag. 13; Janus 1981: pag. 159. N° de réf. du vendeur 41087

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Les Invendables: Quarante oeuvres ...
Éditeur : Galerie Alphonse Chave, Vence, France
Date d'édition : 1969
Reliure : 8vo
Signé : Signé par l'auteur
Edition : Edition originale