Untitled

Untitled  is an artwork realized by Man Ray (1890 - 1976).

Etching and aquatint from the series Les Anatomes, 1970.

Aquatint etching on lana paper.

Hand signed and numbered. Edition 13/100.

Image 43 x 31.8 cm; Sheet 66 x 50.8 cm.

Ref. Anselmino 70.

Good conditions. 

Man Ray  was born in Philadelphia into a family of Russian immigrants of Jewish origin. He grew up in New York where he completed his studies. Here he works in 1908 as a draftsman and graphic designer. In 1912 he began to sign his works with the

pseudonym "Man Ray", which means ray man. He buys his first camera in 1914, to photograph his works of art.

In 1915 the collector Walter Conrad Arensberg presented it to Marcel Duchamp, with whom he would become a great friend. The three founded the Society of Independent Artists. In 1919 he painted his first airbrushes, images produced with an airbrush, a

commonly used retouching tool for a graphic designer. In New York, with Marcel Duchamp he formed the American branch of the Dada movement which began in Europe as a radical rejection of traditional art, but was not very successful.

In 1921 Duchamp returned to Paris and Man Ray followed him. In Paris Duchamp introduced him to the most influential artists of France, including André Breton and Philippe Soupault. Soupault hosted the first exhibition of Man Ray in his library, where the

famous work Cadeau was exhibited. Man Ray's Parisian success is due to his skill as a photographer, especially as a portraitist. Famous artists of the time, such as James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Jean Cocteau and many others, posed in front of his camera.

In 1922 Man Ray produced his first frames, which he called rayographs (rayographies), or photographic images obtained by placing objects directly on sensitive paper.

in 1924 surrealism was officially born, Man Ray was the first surrealist photographer. The production of his research work goes hand in hand with the publication of his fashion photographs in Vogue. He falls in love with the famous French singer Alice Prin, often

called Kiki de Montparnasse, who later became his favorite photographic model. Together with Jean Arp, Max Ernst, André Masson, Joan Miró and Pablo Picasso, he was represented in the first Surrealist exhibition at the Pierre gallery in Paris in 1925.

The outbreak of World War II forces Man Ray, who is of Jewish origin, to return to the United States. In 1940 he arrives in New York but shortly after he moves to Los Angeles. In this period he taught photography and painting in a college, he exhibited his

photographs in various exhibitions, including at the Julien Levy gallery in New York. In 1975 he exhibited his photographs of him at the Venice Biennale.

In the last years of his life, Man Ray often returned to the United States, where he lived in Los Angeles for a few years. however he will die in France in 1976.