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Lot 184
Sale 6286 - The Collected Library
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Mar 5, 2025
Lots Close
Mar 18, 2025
Timed Online / Chicago
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$320
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Lot Description
[ARTIST BOOKS]. RAY, Man (1890-1976). Autoportrait. Paris: Robert Laffont, 1964.
8vo. Original pictorial wraps (rubbing). Provenance: Samuel Sax, Chicago banker (gift inscription).
FIRST FRENCH EDITION. INSCRIBED BY MAN RAY TO SAMUEL SAX, "With apologies for the language." Man Ray was an American visual artist primarily known for his contributions to the Dada and Surrealist movements. A pioneering photographer, Ray was known for his "rayographs," which were photographs created without the use of the camera by placing objects directly onto the surface of light-sensitive materials and then exposing them to light.
[With]: RAY. Portraits. Paris: Editions Prisma, 1963. 4to. Original cloth; dust jacket. SIGNED BY MAN RAY.
Selections from the Library of Dr. John Talbot Gernon
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