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Signed and inscribed recto, on hinged paper, lower right, below image, in graphite: "Man Ray / Paris 1927"; inscribed verso, on hinged paper, center, in graphite: "Schoenberg"; stamped verso, on hinged paper, center, in black ink: "MAN RAY / 31 bis, RUE / CAMPAGNE / PREMIÉRE / PARIS XIVe"
Travis, David. 1976. “Photographs from the Julien Levy Collection: Starting with Atget.” Exh. cat. p. 64, cat. 113.
Wolf, Sylvia. 1996. “The Subject is Music: Photographs from the Permanent Collection.” Exh. cat. The Art Institute of Chicago. n.pag.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Photographs from the Julien Levy Collection: Starting with Atget,” December 11, 1976–February 20, 1977; traveled to the International Center of Photography, New York, April 21-May 29, 1977; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, November 4-December 18 1977; Fogg Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, January 13-Ferbruary 26, 1978; Lakeview Center for the Arts and Sciences, Peoria, Illinois, March 16-April 30, 1978; and Cincinnati Art Museum, November 17-December 24, 1978. (David Travis)
Art Institute of Chicago, “The Subject is Music: Photographs from the Permanent Collection,” September 28-December 1, 1996. (Sylvia Wolf)
Paris, France, Centre National d’Art et Culture Georges Pomidou, Galeries du Grand Palais, “Man Ray,” April 28–June 29, 1998.
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