DETAILS
- Artist
- Man Ray
- Date
- 1928
- Medium
- Pen and black ink, and graphite with smudging, with colored pencils and colored crayons on tan wove paper
- Location
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Dimensions
- 36.2 × 23.1 cm (14 5/16 × 9 1/8 in.)
- Collection
- Prints and Drawings
- Culture
- France
- Credit line
- Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection
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THE ARTIST
Man Ray
Man Ray, born Emmanuel Radnitzky, was an American-born, French-naturalized visual artist who transformed everyday objects into Dadaist icons and pioneered the cameraless photographic 'rayograph'.
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