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Artist or Maker: Man Ray (1890-1976)

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Description: The Artificial Florist
signed and dated 'Man Ray 1943' (lower right); signed, titled and dated '"Artificial Florist" Man Ray 1943' (on the stretcher)
oil and collage on canvas in the artist's frame
painting: 24 x 20 in. (61 x 50.8 cm.)
the artist's box-frame: 25 5/8 x 21 x 3 in. (12.7 x 17 x 8.9 cm.)
Executed in 1943

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Provenance: William N. Copley, New York, by whom acquired from the artist; sale, Sotheby's, New York, 17 May 1979, lot 293.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

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Exhibited: New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Surrealism: Two Private Eyes, June - September 1999, no. 170 (illustrated vol. 1, p. 233).

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Published: View, series III, no. 3, New York, 1943 (illustrated p. 77).
J.-H. Martin, B. Hermann & R. Krauss, Objets de mon affection, Man Ray, Sculptures et Objets, Paris, 1983, no. 72 (illustrated p. 89).
J. Baron, Anthologie plastique du Surréalisme, Paris, 1980 (illustrated p. 177).

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Notes: THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR

To be included in the catalogue of the paintings of Man Ray being prepared by Andrew Strauss and Timothy Baum.

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 17.5% on the buyer's premium.