24th May, 2019 17:00

OstLicht Photo Auction Spring 2019

 
  Lot 72
 

MAN RAY (1890–1976)
‘Photographs by Man Ray 1920-1934 Paris’, Hartford Connecticut: James Thrall Soby, 1934

Sold for €3,000


Lot details

Estimate: € 5.000–6.000

First printing of Man Ray’s first photobook, original spiral bound, colour-photographic stiff paper wrappers, 25 x 31 cm (9.8 x 12.2 in), text in English, French and German, 104 rich heliogravures, original title page missing.

It contains poetry and essays by the leading figures of the Dada and Surrealist movements: André Breton, Paul Éluard, Marcel Duchamp (written under his famous pseudonym “Rrose Selavy”) and Tristan Tzara.

Start price: €3.000