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Sculpture by Man Ray * entitled "Herma (phrodite)" 1975, numbered 13/350 Edition Artcurial, polished bronze on a wooden tronconnic base, twentieth century.
This sculpture is in good condition. Signed and numbered see photos.
A note: the bronze will be cleaned, tiny wear of time, see photos.
A pioneer, with Marcel Duchamp and Picabia, of the most radical movement in modern art, from Dada to Surrealism, which until today crosses the entire field of the visual arts, Man Ray has contributed greatly, by his polymorphous work: paintings objects, assemblages, photographs and films, to widen the horizon and the consciousness of the painters. From his name Emmanuel Rudnitsky, from which he drew the two solar syllables of his famous pseudonym, he discovered Cezanne, the African masks and Brancusi in 1911, at the gallery of Alfred Stieglitz in New York, before seeing the works of Duchamp and Picabia at the Armory Show of 1913, and meet Duchamp himself in 1915, then Picabia. But it is through Adon Lacroix, a singular woman, poet, admirer of Rimbaud, Lautréamont and Apollinaire, that Man Ray took the poetic measure of the revolution of modern art. He had spent his youth in Brooklyn, and attended the "Ferrer Center," which operated in New York according to the principles of Catalan anarchist educator Francisco Ferrer Guardia ("everything was free there [drawing classes, watercolor], even love "). A decisive anarchist formation, since it liberated him from respect for established values, desecrated traditional expression techniques and encouraged him to follow only his own individual necessity in all his innovations. Refusing any hierarchy between painting and photography, he considered the camera and the brush as instruments equivalent to what a writer's typewriter is. So he brought the same mark of originality to his work as a photographer and filmmaker as his work as a painter or assembler of objects. He recounted the circumstances of his adventure in a book: Self-Portrait, which, if it is not enough to capture everything a man difficult to identify, illuminates his personality and his work in the light of a paradoxical humor, a mixture of serious and serene independence from any judgment.
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