About This Artwork

Man Ray
American, 1890–1976

Invention, 1916

Oil on composition board
24 1/2 x 18 1/2 in. (62.2 x 47 cm)
Signed and dated, l.r.: "Man Ray 1916"
Gift of Muriel Kallis Newman in memory of her mother, Ida Kallis, 1980.282

© 2008 Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

New York, The Daniel Gallery, Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Man Ray, December 1916-16 January 1917, no. 8 or 9.

New York, The Daniel Gallery, Man Ray, November 17-December 1, 1919, no. 13.

Paris, Librairie Six, Exposition Dada Man Ray, December 3-31, 1921, no. 3.

Tokyo, ASAHI Shimbun, Masterworks of Modern Art from The Art Institute of Chicago; traveled to Nagaoka, Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, April 20–May 29, 1994; Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, June 10–July 29, 1994; Yokahama Museum of Art, August 6–September 25, 1994.

Publication History

“Man Ray,” La Révolution Surréaliste: la revue la plus scandaleuse du monde, no. 11.

Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, Man Ray, Paintres Nouveaux 36 (Paris, 1924), p. 25 (ill.).

Arturo Schwarz, Man Ray (New York, 1977), p. 37, fig. 33.

Francis Naumann, “Man Ray and America: The New York and Ridgefield years: 1907-1921,” Ph.D. dissertation, City University of New York, New York, 1988 (UMI), pp. 519-20, 584-86.

Ownership History

Muriel Kallis Newman, Chicago, c. 1942; given by her to the Art Institute, 1980.