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Lot 489 D

Man Ray - L'Astrolabe

Auction 962 - overview Cologne
02.06.2010, 00:00 - Modern Art
Estimate: 10.000 € - 15.000 €
Result: 24.000 € (incl. premium)

Metal object (brass, copper, steel, with attached magnifying glass). Overall diameter 66.6 cm. The steel parts in black. Signed, numbered and inscribed ASTROLABE _ IT'S a small World (Hang at eye level _ look through glass) Man Ray 4/10 on the yellowish brass wheel. - The spacial sculpture, originally designed as a hanging object (3 circular and semi-circular forms connected on a hinge point and hanging loosely) set into resp. mounted onto a black wooden base (9 x 55 x 20.3 cm).

Martin 125

Literature

Jules Langsner, Man Ray, exhibition cat. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Berlin 1966, cat. nr. 167 with ill. p. 137; Arturo Schwarz, Man Ray, München 1980 (First edition: Man Ray. The Rigour of Imagination, London 1977), p. 234, ill. nr. 345 p. 220; Jean-Hubert Martin, Man Ray. Objets de Mon Affection, Paris 1983, with ill. p. 100

Exhibitions

Los Angeles 1966 (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Lytton Gallery), Man Ray, cat. nr. 167