🎈SupRARE! Print Man Ray - Les Arums, 1930, Old Authentic Drawing Offset Print

Description: Sale!!! Mega RARE! Unique!!! Man Ray - Les Arums, 1930 Old Authentic Original Drawing Offset print Beautiful Famous photo! Iconic!!! Print size: 22.5 cm x 26 cm This is a print that the printer had archived as a reference model and laminated on a support in order to preserve it over time. A wonderful testimony to traditional art printing that has completely disappeared today. Remarkable old print, bright, with very beautiful dense and contrasting tones. Its rendering as well as its sharpness, its clear details and its brilliance, are absolutely magnificent. Print made in 1994 by a former art printer - Archival model Printer two-tone printing enhanced with a glossy varnish This unpublished print was found in the depths of an assembly workshop in the archive lockers of a former art printing house, carefully preserved flat and protected from light in an envelope. Although it is old with its 30 years of age, it has remained in good condition. Presence of traces of dirt and marks on the back due to the printer's handling. On the other hand, the front is intact, in perfect condition and remarkably shiny. This copy was kept by the printer in order to serve as a reference for its calibration and the coloring on the machine during reprints. In 1930, Arums entered Man Ray’s garden as the most sensual of flowers. Not as a simple academic exercise, but as an emblem of desire, a perfect hollow ready to receive, a smooth and immaculate volume on which it exhibits the virtuoso light of solarization. The image is precise and dynamic with a diagonal that seems to want to grow outside the limits of the frame. "We have not yet done anything in photography, it is still in its infancy, it is the most primitive of the Arts, painting is 20,000 years old, photography barely 100, it is currently in an era which would correspond for painting to that of rock engravings in caves. » Man Ray It was his assistant and muse, Lee Miller, who allowed him to discover "Solarization", a milestone in Man Ray's work, while developing nude negatives, she felt a mouse pass between her legs, cried out and turned on the lab light while the images were in the developer, Man Ray ran and had the wise idea of plunging the negatives into the fixer, without knowing it he had just practiced his first solarization which with a brief exposure of the negative during development, a lamp placed above the developer tank, for 1 to 2 seconds, the light radiates and causes the inversion of the shadow and light values, the blacks become white, and creates the appearance of lines on the contours which are surrounded by halos. Man Ray only wants to distract, disturb, disorient and make people think, he abandons the paths of logic, such is his only rule to see objects, flowers or bodies emerge, meanings that alone can allow the birth of a work of art. He is a jack of all trades, he goes from surrealism to the nude, from solarization to portrait, from rayography to fashion. For the painter with modernist tendencies that Man Ray is at the beginning, photography becomes the mode of expression of modern art par excellence. The technique replaces the artist for the notions of representation and the latter, free from these contingencies, he can explore new modes of expression. Inscribing himself in a surrealist approach just like Picasso, through his compositions, Man Ray marks the shift from the aesthetic of revolt against beautiful painting to the poetics of the strange, the fantastic and the dream specific to surrealism. He is the most inventive photographer of the 20th century and undoubtedly the most creative mind in this field. We owe him solarization, the rayogram, multiple exposure, the manipulation of optical surfaces for artistic purposes, the coupling of positive and negative prints and in the titles of his works, a host of word games that he creates using his Dada and Surrealist vocabulary. With his visionary talent and his strange, astonishing images, he modifies the perception of reality. As soon as you entered his Montmartre studio, you were bathed in an atmosphere of objectivity, light walls, plain screens, technical luxury that allowed for the most diverse lighting. On the walls, a few photographs of nudes, machines, porcelain and landscapes, confirmed that he was a direct photographer, concerned with discovering the photogenic object and not with expressing his personality. He considers the brush, the camera and the typewriter as equals. In his photographic search for beauty in itself, he does not make any preliminary study, he is simply content to surprise himself and the world around him. Far from being imprisoned in the straitjacket of traditional rules, he considers the form in which he works as a simple means at the service of his ideas, he expands the boundaries of ordinary photography, being one of the first to free photography from its vocation to serve the recording of reality. With a singular talent as a visionary, he remains unclassifiable, through his studies of nudes, his fashion photographs and his portraits, he opens a new chapter in the history of photography, and relentlessly experiments. "I maintain that photography is not artistic." Man Ray Man Ray (1890-1976) American photographer, real name Emmanuel Radnitzky, born in Philadelphia, from a family of Russian emigrants. Known as Man Ray, for reasons of pronunciation of his surname, he chose to reduce the nickname of his first name "Manny" to "Man" and took the first 2 letters and the last of his name to form "Ray". He was at the same time a painter, designer, director of avant-garde films, but will be best known as a surrealist photographer from 1918. With his close friend Marcel Duchamp, they will form together the American branch of the Dada movement born in Europe by rejection of traditional art. In 1908 Man Ray finished his secondary studies and was offered a scholarship to pursue studies in architecture which he abandoned by deciding to become an artist. He worked in New York as a draftsman and graphic designer. In 1910 he took drawing lessons at the National Academy of Design in New York. During this period, he frequented the 291 Gallery, directed by Alfred Stieglitz, where Cézanne, Brancusi, Piccasso and the photographs of the aforementioned Stieglitz were exhibited. In 1911 Man Ray took anatomy lessons at the Art Sudents’ League, then studied in 1912 at the revolutionary Ferrer Center in New York. In 1913, at the famous Armory Show dedicated to the European avant-garde, Man Ray discovered the work of Francis Picabia and Marcel Duchamp. He bought his first camera to photograph his paintings. The same year he met the Belgian poet Adon Lacroix, who introduced him to Baudelaire and Rimbaud. The photographer married her in 1914. In 1915 he met the collector Walter Arensberg who introduced him to Marcel Duchamp with whom he became friends and work companion. Man Ray held his first solo exhibition at the "Daniel Gallery" in New York, launching into photography to reproduce his paintings. After the success of the exhibition, he moved away from traditional painting in favor of photography. In 1916, together with Marcel Duchamp, they founded the "Society of Independent Artists". He held his second solo exhibition again at the "Daniel Gallery". In 1917, Man Ray produced spray paintings and airbrushes. In 1919, Man Ray separated from his wife Adon Lacroix. In 1920, he founded the "Société Anonyme", the first museum entirely devoted to modern art, with Marcel Duchamp and Katherine Dreier. He began working as a freelancer for the magazine "Harper's Bazaar", with which he would collaborate until 1942. In 1921, he published the only issue of the magazine "New York Dada" with Duchamp. Man Ray concluded that "Dada cannot live in New York". In June, Duchamp left for Paris, Man Ray joined him in July and settled in the Montparnasse district, to live and work there. He frequented the Parisian Dadaist circles and Marcel Duchamp introduced him to surrealist artists such as Louis Aragon, André Breton and Paul Eluard. It was there that he fell in love with the French singer Alice Prin, nicknamed Kiki, with whom he would move in. In 1922 Man Ray decided to earn his living by specializing in portrait photography and tried his hand at fashion photography for the couturier Paul Poiret. He discovered and perfected a technique by starting to take his first photographs without a camera, photograms that he called "Rayograms". In 1923, on the recommendation of Edward Steichen, Bérénice Abbott became Man Ray's assistant until 1926. In 1924 his photograph "Le Violon d'Ingres" was published in the Dada magazine "Littérature", the same year marked the publication of innovative fashion photographs in the French and American editions of the magazine "Vogue" as well as in "Vanity Fair". In 1925 with Jean Arp, Max Ernst, André Masson, Joan Miro and Pablo Picasso, Man Ray presented his works at the first surrealist exhibition at the "Galerie Pierre" in Paris. In 1929 he met Lee Miller who would be his assistant and mistress until 1932. Together, he discovered, once again by chance, the technique of Solarization. In 1931, he tried the carbro process to make color photos but abandoned it because it did not give him the desired colors. In 1936 Man Ray bought a house in Saint-Germain-en-Laye and began an affair that would last until 1940 with Adrienne Fidelin, known as Ady. In 1940, after the German occupation, Man Ray left Paris for New York. He then went to Los Angeles, where he met Juliet Browner in Hollywood. In 1946, during a joint ceremony in Beverly Hills, Man Ray married Juliet Browner and Marx Ernst married Dorothea Tanning. In 1947, the photographer returned to France to collect his belongings, then in 1951 moved to Paris with Juliet. In 1943, Man Ray wrote an ironic article on photography: "Photography is not art". He had in fact started out as a painter and only took up this practice in 1915, with the sole aim of obtaining images of his paintings. From then on, he would simultaneously or alternately produce documentary photographs, professional photographs, and art photographs, especially after settling in Paris in 1921. In 1958 he was commissioned by the Polaroid firm to work with its black and white films. The commission would result in the series "Unconcerned Photographs". He began experimenting with color photography. In 1961, Man Ray received the medal of the Venice Photography Biennale. In 1962 a retrospective was organized for him at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. In 1967 he was awarded by the Philadelphia Arts Jury for his work and the influence of his hometown. "To create is divine, to reproduce is human." Man Ray Sale as is, no return. 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Price: 585 USD

Location: New York, New York

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