MAN RAY One Man AUCTION Catalog! FINE Condition MAN RAY Start Price USD 95.00 Current Price USD 95.00 Time Left 14 days 22 hours 38 minutes Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Saturday, October 25, 2008 End Time Friday, January 23, 2009 Location Los Angeles, CA See more about 'MAN RAY One Man AUCTION Catalog! FINE Condition MAN RAY' Description E N T H U S I A S T ART BOOKS & FINE ART We purchase Artist Estates as well as art libraries and our goal is to provide, through eBay, a constantly replenished veritable "candystore" of rare and out-of-print books, catalogs and fine art for the lover of American & European prints and paintings... The item you are bidding on is: Man Ray. Paintings, Objects, Photographs. Property from the Estate of Juliet Man Ray, the Man Ray Trust and the Family of Juliet Man Ray. Sale LN5173. Man Ray; Sotheby's , London, 1995. Wraps. 4to size. 308 pages. Auction catalogue, with special die-cut cover, illustrating 597 lots in colour & b/w (about half & half); index to works & subjects; A scarce compendium of many works by Man Ray [ photograph, ready-made, lithograph, assemblage, collage, oil painting, sculpture, drawing, watercolor, etching, books illustrated, chess sets, silkscreen, and on and on] never seen before, and perhaps not to be seen since (if bought for private collections). Sale of 22 & 23 March 1995. Very special because its in FINE condition and Auction results are INCLUDED. I am downsizing a large art library--please see my other listings. ********** See below for our COMBINED SHIPPING DISCOUNTS! PLEASE READ the description provided above carefully prior to purchase, and please examine the photo or photos provided, since those detail exactly what you are purchasing.  If you have any questions please email us prior to purchase.   We have thousands of happy customers all around the world! 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In that case, email us following your purchase for a special COMBINED invoice pursuant to which a 25% discount off posted shipping price for the second item will be extended, and a 50% discount off the posted shipping price(s) will be extended for the third and subsequent items so purchased that same day. Again, the foregoing applies only to domestic shipments. It is possible that in some cases a similar courtesy can be extended for international shipments, but, because of the Post Office limitations on package size, weight, content etc., an international buyer must contact us in ADVANCE to confirm whether any such courtesy may be extended for the particular items desired. WE THANK ALL OF YOU FOR YOUR PATRONAGE OVER THE PAST MANY YEARS! About this well listed artist: Man Ray was born Emmanuel Radnitsky, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants who had settled in Philadelphia. In his early twenties he changed his name -- after years of being taunted because of its foreign sound. Ray’s talents were obvious even in childhood. He was skilled at building, repairing, inventing, and drawing. After rejecting a scholarship to study architecture, he supported himself as a commercial artist and draftsman while taking night classes in art at various New York schools. Ray was a frequent visitor to the Alfred Stieglitz gallery and spent long hours discussing art with his mentor, Robert Henri . At 25, he had his first solo show. His work reflected the influence of Cubism, which he avidly studied. After meeting Marcel Duchamp, Ray bought his first camera. His friendship with Duchamp lasted more than 50 years, and it was Duchamp who encouraged him to move to Paris in 1921. Ray would spend almost the rest of his life there, becoming an important member of the Parisian Dadaist and Surrealist circles. Man Ray is known for his experimentation in almost every medium. His art is loaded with complicated puns and shocking subtexts. His close friendships with artists of all disciplines were crucial in promoting a progressive dialog within Modernism on the merits of photography as an art form. With Lee Miller, Ray developed a photographic solarization process that he used in portraits and nudes. By the time of his death in Paris at age 86, his medium had emerged not only as an accepted art form but as a universal form of visual communication. Place a Bid!