MAN RAY (1890–1976)
Mathematical Object, 1934–1935
gelatin silver print
stamped 'MAN RAY - 8 RUE/DU VAL-DE-GRACE/PARIS 5e - FRANCE/DANTON 92 - 25' [Manford M9] (verso); credited, titled and dated on affixed gallery label (frame backing)
image/sheet: 9 1/8 x 11 7/8 in. (23 x 29.7 cm.)
来源
The Collection of Juliet Man Ray; Robert Miller Gallery, New York; Galerie Montaigne, Paris; acquired from the above by the present owner.
出版
Wendy A. Grossman and Edouard Sebline (eds.), Man Ray Human Equations, A Journey from Mathematics to Shakespeare, The Phillips Collection, Washington D. C., 2016, pp. 54, 55.
展览
New York, Robert Miller Gallery, Man Ray Mathematical Objects, May 3–June 30, 1983.
The present image depicts the theory of elliptic functions, and their resulting curvature has been interpreted as figurative in nature. This form inspired the painting Macbeth.
更多来自
The Face of the Century: Photographs from the F Collection