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A black and white photograph of a seated woman looking left.

The black and white photograph shows a half-length portrait of a woman looking down and slightly to the left, she hold her right hand with finger extended across her breast. Areas of the surface are lighter gray so that around her head there appears to be a gray cloud. The shoulders of her garment appear to be a very light gray. A wavy black line divides the image just below her shoulders. Her extended hand is outlined in black. Areas of her skin are very light while other areas are very dark.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1977.20
People
Man Ray, American (Philadelphia, PA 1890 - 1976 Paris, France)
Title
Femme (Mary Gill)
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1930
Places
Creation Place: Europe, France
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/302035

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Solarized gelatin silver print
Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
actual: 29.2 x 21.6 cm (11 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: MR
  • inscription: recto, graphite, in artist's hand: MR
  • inscription: verso, upper center to upper left, graphite: HAuT Page 61
  • inscription: verso, center, graphite: [printer's marks]
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: femmes [underlined]
  • inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: 17 [circled] Femme 1930
  • stamp: verso, lower right, purple ink, stamp: REPRODUCTION INTERDITE
    MAN RAY
    81 bis RUE
    CAMPAGNE
    PREMIERE
    PARIS XIVe

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Janet Lehr, New York, NY, 1977.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Robert M. Sedgwick II Fund
Copyright
© Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Accession Year
1977
Object Number
P1977.20
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Man Ray, Man Ray: Photographs,1920-1934 Paris, James Thrall Soby and Random House (Hartford and New York, 1934), plate 61
  • Caroline A. Jones, Modern Art at Harvard: The Formation of the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums (New York, NY and Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press, 1985). With an essay by John Coolidge and a preface by John M. Rosenfield. To accompany the inaugural exhibition at the Sackler Museum, Oct 21 1985 - Jan 5 1986, 132
  • Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), no. 338, p. 288, repr.
  • James Cuno, Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Ivan Gaskell, and William W. Robinson, Harvard's Art Museums: 100 Years of Collecting, ed. James Cuno, Harvard University Art Museums and Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (Cambridge, MA, 1996), 301
  • Masterpieces of world art : Fogg Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1997
  • Stephan Wolohojian and Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Harvard Art Museum/ Handbook, ed. Stephan Wolohojian, Harvard Art Museum (Cambridge, 2008), p. 209, ill.

Exhibition History

  • New Presences at the Fogg, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/20/1978 - 11/28/1978
  • New Presences in the Fogg Museum, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/20/1978 - 11/28/1978
  • Chasing Shadows, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/21/1995 - 04/02/1995
  • The Body Politic: Surrealism on Both Sides of the Atlantic 1924 - 1947, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/21/1995 - 01/07/1996
  • 32Q: 1310 Surrealism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 04/29/2015
  • 32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/15/2016 - 01/08/2017

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